Sukhoi to fire BrahMos in 3 months

[ashok321]

On the ongoing flight test programme of BrahMos supersonic missile being integrated on a modified Su30-MKI, ACM Sandeep said that advanced trials are in progress.

“We’ve already completed a dummy drop. The next step will be to test another parameter, before we fire the actual missile,” he said.

It was Wg Cdr Prashanth, a Test Pilot, and his buddy Wg Cdr M S Raju, a FTE, -- both from ASTE -- who had successfully carried out the first flight of Su-30MKI fitted with BrahMos on June 25 this year.......

Interestingly, a PTI report quoted Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha saying today that the live missile would be fired in three months......

Read more at: http://english.mathrubhumi.com/news...i-to-fire-brahmos-in-3-months-aste--1.1402970

 

[#hydra#]

One doubt,once brahmos m comesoperational weather iaf will drop this heavy brahmos, air to surface ?

 

[raj76]

One doubt,once brahmos m comesoperational weather iaf will drop this heavy brahmos, air to surface ?

IMO it will be more purposeful against ships