TNPSC Thervupettagam

New version of Brahmos

November 30 , 2020 1461 days 1133 0
  • India test fired the new land-attack version Brahmos at Andaman Islands.
  • It is a surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile.
  • The range of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km.
  • The speed has been maintained at 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound.
  • Brahmos-II is currently under development with a speed of Mach 7-8.
  • After India became a member of Missile Technology Control Regime in 2016, Russia is to jointly build a new version of Brahmos missile that has a range of 800 km.
  • The name of Brahmos missile was coined from the two rivers Brahmaputra of India and Moskva of Russia.
  • It is the fastest anti-ship cruise missile in the world.
  • The missile can be launched from ships, submarines, aircraft and from land platforms.

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