Balasore (Odisha): India on Wednesday successfully test-fired the extended range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which can hit targets at over 400-kilometre range.
Congratulating the team of scientists involved in today's successful test, DRDO chairman Dr G Satheesh Reddy said that this will lead to adding "more indigenous content" to the supersonic cruise missile.
The test-firing was carried out under the PJ-10 project of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), under which the missile was launched with an indigenous booster.
The missile was launched from a land-based facility in Odisha.
This is the second test-firing of the extended range version of the missile which has an indigenously developed airframe and booster.
The BrahMos is a ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, fighter jets, or land.
The missile has been developed as a joint venture between the DRDO and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of Russia.
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Earlier, on September 24th India successfully test-fired its indigenously developed surface-to-surface nuclear-capable Prithvi-II missile from a base in Odisha. The state-of-the-art missile uses an advanced inertial guidance system with manoeuvring trajectory to hit its target.
The state-of-the-art missile was test-fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur near here in darkness and the trial was successful in meeting all the parameters, they said. The trial of the missile, which has a strike range of 350 km, was carried out from a mobile launcher from launch complex-3 of the ITR.
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