Question: The of BrahMos Cruise missile was launched from the Indian Navy destroyer INS Vishakhapatna at which place ?
a) off the Western coast.
b) Off the East Coast of India
c) Off the Eastern Coast of India
d) None of these
Ans :a
Related Facts :
- The Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) on Tuesday successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise.
- The missile was launched from the Indian Navy destroyer INS Vishakhapatnam off the Western coast.
- The supersonic cruise missile is part of the BrahMos Aerospace, an India-Russian joint venture.
- It can be from submarines, ships, aircraft, or land platforms.
- The BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound.
- Recently the DRDO had extended the range of the missile system from the existing 298 km to around 450 km.
- The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is the world’s fastest operational system in its class.
- About Brahmos Supersonic cruise missile :
- BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile being developed by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) of India and NPO Mashinostroeyenia (NPOM) of Russia.
- In February 1998, India and Russia signed an inter-governmental agreement to establish BrahMos Aerospace for producing the BrahMos missiles.
- The first BrahMos missile was test fired from the integrated test range at Chandipur in Orissa Coast in June 2001.
- BrahMos has a flight range of up to 290km and can reach a maximum speed of Mach 3.
- Advanced satellite navigation systems from Russia’s Kh-555 and Kh-101 strategic long-range cruise missiles, and GPS-GLONASS technology were added to the existing doppler-inertial platforms of BrahMos missiles in 2013.
- A hypersonic version of the BrahMos, with a speed of Mach 7.
By Pawan Mishra