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BrahMos cruise missile successfully test-fired from Sukhoi jet
November 23 , 2017
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- The world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test fired from Indian Air Force’s (IAF) Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jet.
- It marks a history as IAF is the first air force in the world to have successfully fired an air launched 2.8 Mach surface attack missile.
- With this, BrahMos is going to get inducted in IAF which lead India to completed its Supersonic Cruise Missile Triad.
- Already BrahMos has been already inducted in Army and Navy.
- It is the supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from land, sea, sub-sea and air based platforms.
- It is developed by a joint venture between DRDO of India and NPOM of Russia.
- The missile operates on the ‘fire-and-forget’ principle and its destructive power is one of the best due to the production of large kinetic energy on impact.
- Cruise missiles are designed to fly at low-altitudes, almost hugging the terrain, to evade enemy radars and missile defence systems.
- BrahMos, the name is an amalgamation of India’s Brahmaputra and Russia’s Moskva river.
- It is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine in its first stage and the liquid ramjet engine in the second stage.
- The missile has flight range of up to 290 km with supersonic speed all through the flight, making it the first supersonic cruise missile.
- It can carry a conventional warhead weighing 200 to 300kgs.
- It is also the world's fastest anti-ship cruise missile in operation.
- Recently, BrahMos Extended Range (ER) Missile was successfully test fired.
- BrahMos ER missile is capable of hitting the enemy targets at much higher range than the current range of 290 km with the supersonic speed of 2.8 Mach.
- This technology upgrade comes after India’s full membership to the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), which removed caps on range of BrahMos cruise missile.
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