India successfully test-fires land-attack version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile
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25th Nov, 2020
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Context
- The BrahMos missile provides the IAF a much-desired capability to strike from large stand-off ranges on any target at sea or on land with pinpoint accuracy by day or night and in all weather conditions.
What are its significant features?
- The range of the new land-attack version of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km.
- Its speed has been maintained at 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound.
- BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the lethal weapon that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms.
What is its current strategic importance?
- It can be deployed in several strategic locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh amidst the growing tension with China.
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BrahMos
- The BrahMos, designated as PJ-10,is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile.
- It can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land.
- It is the fastest supersonic cruise missile in the world.
- It is a joint venture between the Russia and India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), who together have formed BrahMos Aerospace.
- In 2016, as India became a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), India and Russia are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 800 km-plus range.
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