India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile
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- India successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with several indigenous features.
- The test firing of the missile was carried out by the Defence Research and Development Organisation, DRDO from Balasore in Odisha.
- The supersonic cruise missile is capable of hitting targets at more than 400-km range. This is the second test-firing of the extended range version of the missile which has an indigenously developed airframe and booster. During the test, the BrahMos land-attack cruise missile (LACM) was cruising at a top speed of Mach 2.8.BrahMos is a ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from different platforms (submarines, ships, fighter jets, or land) The missile has been developed as a Joint Venture between Russia and India; the DRDO and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia (NPOM) of Russia.
- Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has congratulated all the personnel of DRDO and team BrahMos for the spectacular mission.
Source: AIR
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Defence Research and Development Organisation
- The Defence Research and Development Organisation is an agency of the Government of India, charged with the military's research and development.
- Chairman: Dr G Satheesh Reddy
- Headquarters : New Delhi
- Motto: बलस्य मूलं विज्ञानम्; "Strength's Origin is in Science" (Sanskrit)
- Founded: 1958
- Minister : Rajnath Singh, Minister of Defence
- Subsidiaries: Gas Turbine Research Establishment, Defence Scientific Information and Documentation Centre