India Successfully Test Fires Surface-To-Surface BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile

BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile: Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari congratulated on the successful test-firing of missile.

BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Andaman & Nicobar (ANI photo)

New Delhi: The Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on Wednesday "successfully" test-fired surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which is an extended range missile that can hit its target with pinpoint accuracy, as reported by news agency ANI.

India today successfully testfired surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Andaman & Nicobar. Extended range missile hit its target with pinpoint accuracy: Defence officials pic.twitter.com/Yz54DAyTxq

— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2022

Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chowdhury and other defense officials witnessed the missile test. The defense official informed that the missile hit its target accurately.

Meanwhile, Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari congratulated on the successful test-firing of missile.

"Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari congratulated on the successful test-firing of surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. He is in the Island territory of Andaman & Nicobar to review operational preparedness," said Defence officials as quoted by ANI.

Air Chief Marshal VR Chaudhari congratulated on the successful test-firing of surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. He is in the Island territory of Andaman & Nicobar to review operational preparedness: Defence officials

— ANI (@ANI) March 23, 2022

Earlier, news agency ANI had quoted sources saying that the range of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles had recently been extended to 500 km. This is made possible by simply upgrading the software. No changes have been made to the missile.

Now the missile has a range of 800 km. It can also be dropped from high altitudes by fighter jets. The Indian Air Force has deployed BrahMos cruise missiles on its 40 Sukhoi aircraft. These missiles can be more deadly and can hit the enemy from a greater distance.

The BrahMos missile has been developed in collaboration with Russia. These missiles fly at three times the speed of sound i.e. 2.8 Mach (Mach number is the ratio of an object's speed in a given medium to the speed of sound in that medium). It can also dodge the radar. Earlier its range was 290 km, which was increased to 350-400. 

The air version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully tested with the Sukhoi 30 MKI on December 8 last year. Now there are plans to deploy them on other fighter jets as well.