BRAHMOS MISSILE

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CONTEXT:

Recently, India has successfully test-fired a land-attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The test by the Army comes over a month after the Naval version of BrahMos was successfully test fired from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai.

Features :

1. The range of the missile has been extended to 400 km from the original 290 km but its speed has been maintained at 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound.
2. The test was done in a “top-attack” configuration.
3. Most modern missiles, including BrahMos, can be fired in both topattack and direct attack modes.
4. In top attack mode, the missile is required to climb sharply after launch, travel at a certain altitude and then fall on top of the target.
5. In direct attack mode, the missile travels at a lower altitude, directly striking the target.
6. Significance of the Test:
7. These tests are a display of India’s tactical cruise missile triad, i.e.launch capability from land, sea and air platforms.
8. India has already deployed a sizable number of the original BrahMos missiles and other key assets in several strategic locations along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.
9. The test marks the achievement of a critical milestone in enhancing India’s capability of engaging enemy’s vitally important targets in depth areas.
10. In the last two-and-half months, India has test fired a number of missiles including an anti-radiation missile named Rudram-1 which is planned to be inducted into service by 2022.

SOURCE: ANI