Question: Recently, India’s BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile is tested from which warship?
(a) INS Arihant
(b) INS Kolkata
(c) INS Kochi
(d) INS Sindhuratna
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- On 1 November 2015, Supersonic Cruise missile BRAHMOS test fired from Navy’s newest stealth destroyer INS Kochi successfully.
- This is to be noted that Indian navy commissioned INS Kochi on 30 September 2015.
- This is overall 49th trial of the BRAHMOS missile.
- Before this, in February 2015 BRAHMOS was successfully tested from INS Kolkata.
- This missile has a strike-range of 290 kms.
- This missile has the ability to attack with the speed between 2.8 to 3.0 Mach.
- The BRAHMOS missile is one of the world’s fastest cruise missiles.
- It is capable of being launched from land, sea(warship)and air against sea and land targets.
- BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile designed and developed by BRAHMOS Aerospace, a joint venture of India (DRDO) and Russia (NPO Mashinostroyoniya)
- Missile’s name has been derived from the names of two rivers, India’s Brahmaputra River and Russia’s Moskva River.
Reference:
http://www.brahmos.com/pressRelease.php?id=45
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/brahmos-testfired-from-new-warship/article7830168.ece