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India Tests BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile
Apr 22nd, 2007 | 3 responses
The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India and Russia was successfully tested from a range at Chandipur (India) today, paving the way for its induction into the Indian army, reports The Hindu.
“Defence scientists are working on a miniaturised version of BrahMos to be launched from the Sukhoi-30 combat jets. The sea-launched version of BrahMos has been installed on the Rajput and Ranvijay class of frigates of the navy.
” ‘Many countries have evinced interest in the BrahMos which has no equivalent in the world. There is no missile in the world with such capacities, precision, speed and power,’ says top Indian missile scientist A Sivathanu Pillai, who heads the BrahMos project.”
3 Responses to “India Tests BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile”
What a cool toy — useful like ordinary cruise missiles and it gets to the target much more quickly.
Some in the USA have wanted a hypersonic cruise missile in our future. The shorter the flight time, the better, and the ultimate would be a hypersonic cruise missile with a range that would let it strike anywhere on earth from the launch point. You have precision, as with the Indian-Russian cruise missile and with our existing missiles, you have the ability to fly a confusing path to the target, and ideally you’d have a missile that you could reprogram while it is in flight, to change its flight plan on the fly, literally.
Surely its great!!!
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