Moscow: In a critical test, an anti-ship version of the BrahMos, the Russian-Indian supersonic cruise missile, will be launched from a submarine platform by year-end, the Russian partner company in the project said on Friday. "We need a test-launch by the end of the year," Alexander Dergachev, Deputy General Director of the Russian partner company NPO Mashninostroyenie, said.
"A decision will be made on whether the weapon can be accepted for service with the Indian Navy, dependent on the outcome," he was quoted by RIA Novosti news agency as saying. The test will be a single demonstration firing from a submerged raft, Dergachev said. "When an operational carrier has been chosen, then further trials will continue," he said.
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03:49 AM, Oct 13, 2012
Panaji: The Indian Navy on Sunday morning 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 said. They said the missile performing high-level manoeuvres successfully hit the target ship...
09:10 AM, Oct 07, 2012
New Delhi: India's Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) has conclusively got past its crucial make-or-break stage. The programme, that was envisioned under the leadership of Mrs Indira Gandhi in the late 1970s and was started in the early 1980s, has been further consolidated with an exponentially expanded plan in the latter years to include every tactical and strategic stand-off platforms deemed necessary for the nation's defensive and offensive abilities....
03:55 PM, Sep 19, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Monday successfully test fired the nuclear-capable Babur cruise missile with a range of 700 km that could hit targets deep inside India, with the military saying the launch had consolidated and strengthened the country's deterrence capability. The "fully automated Strategic Command and Control Support System" of the National Command Authority, which controls Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, was deployed during the test which was conducted at an unspecified location,...
01:08 PM, Sep 17, 2012
Balasore (Odisha): India on Wednesday successfully test fired Brahmos supersonic cruise missile as part of a user trial by the Army from the test range at Chandipur off Odisha coast. "The missile was test fired from a ground mobile launcher from the launch complex-3 at about 1122 hours and the trial was successful," said a defence official. The missile, which has a flight range of up to 290 km, is...
12:13 PM, Mar 28, 2012
It is often remarked that the only thing missing in India's missile portfolio is a subsonic cruise missile akin to the BGM-109G Tomahawk ground launched ...
12:28 PM, Mar 09, 2012
New Delhi: Providing it a swift strike capability along the border with Pakistan, the Indian Army on Sunday inducted its second BrahMos supersonic cruise missile regiment in the western sector. It also successfully conducted a test of the 290-km range missile to validate the unit's operationalisation. "In conformity and pursuit of operational and strategic surface to surface missile capability development, the second BrahMos unit of Indian Army has been operationalised...
09:47 AM, Mar 05, 2012
Islamabad: Pakistan on Friday successfully tested the nuclear-capable Hatf-VIII or Raad cruise missile which has a range of 350 kms, the military announced. The indigenously developed low-flying stealth design missile, which can carry a nuclear or a conventional warhead, was tested at an undisclosed location. The Inter-Services Public Relations said the test of the missile Raad was successful. The Raad, meaning thunder in Arabic, which was tested for the first...
11:25 AM, Apr 29, 2011
New Delhi: India will test-fire the submarine-launched version of the 290km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile by the end of 2011. "We will test-fire the underwater version of the missile by the end of this year (2011) after we get the pontoon for the purpose," BrahMos Aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai said in New Delhi. Underwater weapon-delivery platforms are considered to be the most potent second strike capability of countries'...
07:22 PM, Mar 12, 2011
Balasore: India on Sunday test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off Orissa coast as part of trials by the defence forces to fine-tune its capability. "It was a user's trial by the defence forces," said a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) official soon after the missile blasted off from a mobile launcher at about 11.35 AM from ITR's launch complex-3....
12:28 PM, Sep 05, 2010
![Pak has more nukes than India: Report]( "Pak has more nukes than India: Report")
A report claims Pakistan has 60 nuclear warheads and can produce 100 more at a very short notice. ...
10:19 AM, Jun 03, 2010
BrahMos test-firing first-ever by the Army after the missile was inducted in June 2007. ...
12:35 PM, Jan 21, 2009
The launch comes at a time of heightened tension between India and Pakistan. ...
08:04 AM, Dec 19, 2008
The missile named Sagarika has a range of 1,000 kms. ...
02:26 PM, Jul 07, 2007
This was the 14th launch of the BrahMos supersonic missile. The last test was conducted at the ITR on February 4. ...
12:46 AM, Apr 23, 2007
The army will get the missiles mounted on mobile platforms in ‘large numbers’, said BrahMos Aerospace CEO S Pillai. ...
02:39 AM, Mar 24, 2007
Named after the Mughal emperor, the Babur missile has a longer range and nuclear capability compared to BrahMos. ...
11:20 PM, Mar 22, 2007
