An advanced version of the Indo-Russian supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur on the Odisha coast on Tuesday.
The developmental launch, in steep-dive mode for precision attack against targets behind mountain ridges, was carried out using a mobile autonomous launcher prepared by the third BrahMos regiment of the Army.
The flight-test of the missile, with a range of 290 km, was significant in that it validated the all-new indigenous software algorithm, resulting in “pinpoint accuracy against hidden land targets.”
The two-stage missile is capable of delivering a conventional warhead of 200-300 kg.
A. Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace, said the missile flew at Mach 2.8 in a textbook launch yielding cent per cent results.