BrahMos missile successfully test-fired

October 07, 2012 09:41 am | Updated October 18, 2016 01:13 pm IST - Panaji

File photo of a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

File photo of a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

The Navy on Sunday successfully test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, capable of carrying a conventional warhead of 300 kg, from a warship off the Goa coast.

“The cruise missile was test-fired from guided missile frigate INS Teg — the Indian Navy’s latest induction from Russia off the coast of Goa early morning,” sources told PTI .

They said the missile performing high-level manoeuvres successfully hit the target ship, which was still on fire.

The INS Teg, which has been built at the Yantar shipyard in Russia, had fired the missile successfully during pre-induction trials in Russia last year.

The two remaining warships of the project namely INS Tarkash and INS Trikand will also be armed with the lethal missile in vertical launch mode.

The two-stage missile, the first one being solid and the second one ramjet liquid propellant, has already been inducted into the Army and Navy, and the Air Force version is in final stage of trial, a defence official said.

While induction of the first version of Brahmos missile system in the Indian Navy commenced from 2005 with INS Rajput, it is now fully operational with two regiments of the Army.

The air launch version and the submarine launch version of the missile system are in progress, he said.

This article has been corrected for an editing error.

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