India successfully tests BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

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India successfully tests BrahMos supersonic cruise missile | Zee News

Last Updated: Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 13:4

Bhubaneswar: India Saturday successfully test fired the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile from INS Kolkata, the navy`s most powerful and newest warship, in Arabian sea, an official said.


The launch was flawless and the missile met all its designed parameters, BrahMos Aerospace spokesperson Praveen Pathak told IANS.

The Indian Navy commissioned INS Kolkata Aug 16, 2014. This is the first ship of this class, with two more in the pipeline.

All the three ships will be quipped with the vertical-launched BrahMos system as the prime strike weapon.

The Universal Vertical Launcher Module (UVLM) being used in these has a unique design, developed and patented by BrahMos Aerospace.

The UVLM has the benefits of stealth and permits launching of the missile vertically in any direction.

BrahMos chief Sudhir Mishra congratulated the BrahMos Team and Indian Navy on the successful mission.

The BrahMos has a range of 290 km and can carry a conventional warhead of up to 300 kg. It has a top speed of Mach 2.8, which is about three times faster than the US subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile. This makes BrahMos one of the fastest cruise missiles in the world.

It can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft and land.

IANS


First Published: Saturday, February 14, 2015 - 13:42

 

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BrahMos missile is launched from the INS Kolkata during Theatre Readiness Operational Level Exercise (TROPEX-2015), off the coast of Goa in the Arabian Sea, on February 14, 2015. (PTI photo)


NEW DELHI: The Navy successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from its latest stealth destroyer INS Kokata on Saturday, the largest-ever warship built in India till now, during its ongoing major Tropex exercise being conducted in the Arabian Sea.

The 290km deadly conventional missile hit its target with pinpoint accuracy during this first-ever vertical launch from the 6,800-tonne INS Kolkata, which was commissioned in August last year. Two more follow-on destroyers, INS Kochi and INS Chennai, are being constructed at the Mazagon Docks under the overall Rs 11,662 crore project.

"The two warships, like INS Kolkata, are also being equipped with the universal vertical-launched BrahMos missile system as their principle precision strike weapon. The warships can fire 16 missiles in a salvo mode," said an official.

The BrahMos missiles, which fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8, have already been inducted in the Army and Navy. The missile's air-launched version is slated to be tested from a Sukhoi-30MKI fighter soon.

Defence minister Manohar Parrikar, witnessing the exercise from aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, said the government would give "all support" to the Navy to "remain a superior force" in the Indian Ocean Region and "become a truly blue-water force".

Around 50 warships and 70 aircraft are participating in the "theatre readiness operational level exercise", with the country's first-ever dedicated military satellite Rukmini or GSAT-7 "seamlessly networking" the triad of surface, sub-surface and air platforms of the Navy.

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17 Aug 2014

 

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17 Aug 2014

that is not brahmos

 

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that is not brahmos

I am still searching for the new video and found this.

Prasar Bharati .youtube Id is there.

 

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I am searching the video and found this.

 

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Prasar Bharati .youtube Id is there.

 

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Prasar Bharati .youtube Id is there.

that video is just wrong i have seen it a lot earlier ............brahmos do not fire like that ........secondly if you see carefully it have integrated radar like burke

 

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that video is just wrong i have seen it a lot earlier ............brahmos do not fire like that ........secondly if you see carefully it have integrated radar like burke View attachment 193730

What about this video ?