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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