India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise
India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise India successfully conducted the first test of the BrahMos cruise missile on Monday aimed at increasing its life from 10 to 15 years. The missile was test fired from a mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur along the Odisha coast at about 10.44 am, sources confirmed. Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman congratulated Team Brahmos and DRDO on the successful launch of the cruise missile. "The successful test will result in huge savings of replacement cost of missiles held in the inventory of the Indian armed forces," tweeted the Defence Minister.
The Indian Army has already inducted three regiments of BrahMos in its arsenal. All are are equipped with Block-III version of the missile. The fire-and-forget missile has the capability to take on surface targets by flying a combined hi-lo trajectory, thus evading enemy air defence systems. -PTC NewsSmt @nsitharaman congratulates Team Brahmos & @DRDO_India for successful flight test carried out at 1040 hrs on 21 May 2018 from ITR, Balasore to validate BRAHMOS missile life extension technologies developed for the first time in India. 1/2 — Raksha Mantri (@DefenceMinIndia) May 21, 2018
