New Delhi: The naval variant of the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, with an extended range of 350 to 400-km, and the Missile Guided Native Anti-Tank (MP-ATGM), with a strike range of 2.5 km, was successfully tested on Tuesday.
Brahmos missiles were fired from the latest Navy navy missile rudal vessel, INS Visakhapatnam, assigned last November, to reach the designated target in sea-to-sea mode with “precision”, a Drdo official said.
Low MP-ATGM, fire-and-forgotten, in turn, was successfully tested flights in the “final result configuration”.
Drdo officials said, “Launched from a male portable launcher integrated with thermal vision, the missile affected the designated target and destroyed it.” “This test is to prove the performance of consistent missiles, which have a sophisticated infrared infrared imaging seeker and on-board control and guidance, for minimum range.
The performance has been proven for the previous maximum range,” he added.
The brahmos range, conventional weapons (non-nuclear) who are deadly together developed with Russia that fly almost three times the speed of sound in Mach 2.8, extended from the original 290-km to 350-400-km now.
The BRAHMOS land attack missile battery was deployed at Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh, along with tanks, howitzers, surface-to-air missiles and other weapons, as part of the overall posture of military readiness against China.
Brahmos that breathe air has emerged as a “main strike weapon” for the armed forces for many years, with a contract worth more than RS 36,000 Crore already inked until now.
Army, for example, has four Brahmos regiments now, with others on the road.
INS Visakhapatnam, in turn, is the 11th frontline warship equipped with a Brahmos vertical launch system.
While the IAF also triggered two land-based Brahmos squadons, the Brahmos version launched with a slimmer air is also even more right on the Sukhoi-30MKI combat jet.
With a combat radius of almost 1,500-km without refueling air, Sukhois with Brahmos missiles is a formidable remote weapon package.
India and Russia also developed a new version of Brahmos with a collapse range of 800 km.
After India joined the 34-country missile technology control regime (MTCR) in June 2016, “the lid has been removed” in the range of supersonic missiles.
MTCR basically prevents missile proliferation and drones above the range of 300-km.