Indian Defence Minister A K Antony asked Russia to Induct the BrahMos cruise missile, which was developed in a Indo-Russian joint venture...
“Russia should induct BrahMos in their fleet so that the success achieved in the joint venture will be fully appreciated,” he said here.
The missile is yet to be inducted into the Russian armed forces.
BrahMos has been pushing for the induction of the missile on under-construction Russian warships which are similar to Indian Navy’s Talwar Class frigates built by Russia.
The Minister was addressing a gathering on the ‘Partnership Day” marking the 15th anniversary of the signing of Inter-Governmental Agreement (IGA) between India and Russia for the setting up of the BrahMos joint venture.
Antony said Indian Air Force(IAF) will soon have BrahMos both,on land and air platforms, making it a real force multiplier for all the wings of the Indian armed forces.
“Army, Navy and Air Force consider BrahMos to be an important weapon due to its speed, precision and power. The government has also decided to expand the infrastructure at multiple centres to cater to larger production requirement of BrahMos missiles and systems,” he said.
Antony said cooperation between the scientists and scientific expertise of DRDO and NPOM and many other organisations from India and Russia have proved that there is a way to do things faster and take the lead in the world.
BRAHMOS is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine as its first stage which brings it to supersonic speed and then gets separated. The liquid ramjet or the second stage then takes the missile closer to 3 Mach speed in cruise phase. Stealth technology and guidance system with advanced embedded software provides the missile with special features.
The missile has flight range of up to 290-kmwith supersonic speed all through the flight, leading to shorter flight time, consequently ensuring lower dispersion of targets, quicker engagement time and non-interception by any known weapon system in the world.
Its cruising altitude could be up to 15 km and terminal altitude is as low as 10 meters. It carries a conventional warhead weighing 200 to 300 kgs.
