India successfully flight-tests extended range BrahMos missile
- India on Wednesday successfully flight-tested an extended range BrahMos surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile with indigenous booster and airframe section along with many other ‘Made in India’ sub-systems, for designated range.
- The test, the second of the extended range (400 km) BrahMos missile, took place from a land-based mobile launcher at 10.30 am. It comes at a time when the original 290-km range BrahMos has already been deployed in Ladakh as well as Arunachal Pradesh during the ongoing military confrontation with China.
- BrahMos, a primary precision-strike conventional weapon for the armed forces, was flight-tested from the integrated test range at Balasore.
- The test was carried out from ITR, Balasore in Odisha at 1030 hours. It is one more major step in enhancing the indigenous content. The BrahMos Land-Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) was cruising at a top speed of Mach 2.8.
- Defence minister Rajnath Singh congratulated all the personnel of DRDO and team BrahMos for the spectacular mission. G Satheesh Reddy, secretary DD R&D and chairman of DRDO, congratulated the scientific community and industry for this feat.
- Today’s successful launch has paved the way for the serial production of the indigenous booster and other indigenous components of the powerful BrahMos Weapon System realising Atmanirbhar Bharat pledge, says a defence ministry release. Source: https://www.domain-b.com/
