The successful maiden test firing of the over 290 km-range submarine-launched version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday. PHOTO: THEHINDUBUSINESSLINE.COM
The missile successfully travelled the range of over 290km, BrahMos CEO A Sivathanu Pillai told PTI. He said the performance of the missile during the test launch, which was fired from an underwater pontoon near Visakhapatnam, was "perfect".
“BrahMos missile is fully ready for fitment in submarines in vertical launch configuration which will make the platform one of the most powerful weapon platforms in the world,” Mr Pillai said.
Following the successful tests of ship and ground-launched versions of the missile, Indian Army and Navy have put the weapons in service.
Earlier, India carried out a long-range subsonic cruise missile test Nirbhay, which was indigenously built, but the missile failed to hit the target in its maiden test. A week later, the first test of submarine-launched version of BrahMos proved to be successful.
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@akira no they do not have of that category
Gulam Rasool "Kuldeep sharma" New Delhi
@ Xnain he he sagarika,it was tested successfully 14 times or more with latest and the last successful test happened a month before and is now ready to get inducted to ins arihant.Shall i give u link??? better do some research and then talk
@Arijit Sharma: to amir omani "The Russians got their tech from the Nazis." So did Americans, as a matter of fact!
Both Ind and Pak compete with each other in showing off their new weapons .They should spend more time and energy on fighting inner demons like unemplyment / illiteracy/ falling men:women ratio.
A perfect way to track, identify and hit the gang rapists. With all these missiles, Indian women still get gang raped in their own capital as well as swiss tourists. What a joke on a country which can not protect their own daughters and mothers from daily rapes. India is worlds largest fascists kleptocracy indeed.
@Arijit Sharma:
Would have been better if you had said "Long Live China".
ET- Why did you not publish my comment praising Indian scientists ? You should not have posted this news item in the first place if you were wary of India's achievements being commended by the Indians.
@amirOmani: LONG LIVE RUSSIA Are you saying this because it can be used against your country? No brother, don't get so frustrated...
@amirOmani: great :D
Bye, bye who are against India.
@amirOmani: " ... LONG LIVE RUSSIA ... "
Lets go back further and say Heil Hitler. The Russians got their tech from the Nazis.
@akira: Why are you guys so naive? Whats the point of testing Babur via canastered launch? And I am suprised to see brahmos being tested from sub. What happened to indigenous sagrika, money wasted? Indian Navy is notorious of wasting funds in the name of "indigenous efforts" anyways.
@amirOmani: Please read the news carefully which says only India has this tech.
This missile will not come under the radar of anti balistic missile system - the technologies which china, US, russia and India also possesses. It means with the help of submarine India can fire this missile any where in the world
pak must immediately ask one from china...( if they themselves have one :P )
Both Pakistan and India have at least one thing in common - spending enormous resources on developing weapons that are useless in fighting their real enemy - extremist/terrorist.
LONG LIVE RUSSIA