Indian Government released a statement stating it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan due to a technical malfunction, during a routin...
Indian Government released a statement stating it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan due to a technical malfunction, during a routine maintenance.
The wreckage identified the missile as the Supersonic BrahMos cruise missile, a 290 km range missile developed jointly developed by India and Russia, based on the Russian Yakhont anti ship cruise missile.
Pakistan Army claimed it had detected the high flying projectile from India which crashed inside its territory in Punjab province on Wednesday evening.
Pakistan claimed the projectile took of from Sirsa in Indian Haryana state, and changed course and flew 124 km deep into Pakistan and crashed in Mian Channu, in the eastern part of Pakistan.
The missile was in Pakistani Airspace for more than 3 minutes and was flying at Mach 2+.
Initial probe has indicated human error rather than a technical glitch for the incident. The highly redundant missile launch software consist of two software locks followed by two manual keys to initiate a launch process, which were override on the incident day for maintenance checks.
