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High speed of Bhramos gives less time for enemy defences to react. Also high KE will make it easy to pierce deeper into well protected hulls and the warhead does the rest.
None of which is unique to Brahmos. It's just the latest in a line of large, fast-moving Russian missiles.
KH-15 came screaming in at Mach 5.
![1280px-AS-16_Kickback_2008_G1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fb%2Fb8%2FAS-16_Kickback_2008_G1.jpg%2F1280px-AS-16_Kickback_2008_G1.jpg&hash=8e269c29cd95e97a1adcf8490deb627d)
KH-22 was hitting Mach 4.5.
![pervomaysk-kh-22na-missile-01.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fcomtourist.com%2Fimages%2Flarge%2Fpervomaysk-icbm-museum%2Fpervomaysk-kh-22na-missile-01.jpg&hash=db5be5adcfda7e644d6ce79146906c41)
P 500 hits Mach 3.
![bazalt-moscow.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.warships.ru%2FRussia%2FWeapons%2FPKR%2FP-500%2Fbazalt-moscow.jpg&hash=1cfb0860a320b7abfd07dbe8fccc2da0)
Same with P 270.
![moskit+(0).jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-fex7QrlIpVA%2FTyLjnu0ECaI%2FAAAAAAAAB5M%2FlJ26z39Itpo%2Fs1600%2Fmoskit%2B%280%29.jpg&hash=5f119afe45629d99c1dc8e73cee3e8b5)
Since the inception of P-270 some 30, nearly 40 years ago, nations have been investing in defenses against supersonic, sea skimming missiles including RAM.
![RAM-Freedom-1.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.murdoconline.net%2Fwordpress%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F08%2FRAM-Freedom-1.jpg&hash=341f7f7ceb69c68219a2897564829a2d)
And ESSM.
Which train against supersonic, sea skimming targets like GQM-163 Coyote.
![Coyote_flt.jpg](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fc%2Fcb%2FCoyote_flt.jpg&hash=4c8c27f78ed7a18d6eee5417d710981e)
And a version of Russia's KH-31 "Mini Moskit" called the MA-31.
![QF-4N.jpg](/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afwing.com%2Fupload%2F2015-03%2Ffsat%2FQF-4N.jpg&hash=5209a0fd3a7c206b255ba177d987151e)
Brahmos is big and mean, no one's saying it's not a threat. But it's nothing new either, it's just the latest in a long line of large, fast moving Russian missiles.
There are countermeasures to deal with it and similar weapons.
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