Watch| India successfully testfires supersonic Brahmos cruise missile with extended range Report

India on Wednesday successfully test-fired extended range surface-to-surface Brahmos supersonic missile in Andaman and Nicobar Islands on Wednesday.

The defence officials informed that the extended range missile hit the target accurately.

“India today successfully test fired surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Andaman & Nicobar. Extended range missiles hit its target with pinpoint accuracy,” ANI quoted the defence officials as saying.

Air chief Marshal VR Chaudhari congratulated on the successful test-firing of Brahmos, the defence officials further said.

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The Indian Navy, earlier in March 2022, had demonstrated the accuracy of an extended-range land-attack Brahmos missile successfully from INS Chennai, a stealth destroyer.

India in January 2022 had tested an improvised version of the sea-to-sea variant of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from INS Visakhapatnam. The new version boasts an extended range and is an advanced variant of cruise missile.

The test missile had precisely hit the target ship, according to the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO). This particular missile variant is developed and designed to launch both in vertical and horizontal mode from either a stationary or moving vehicle at both land or/and sea-based targets.

In October 2020, BrahMos was successfully launched from indigenously built INS Chennai in the Arabian sea. As per a report by Naval Technology, the extended variant will have a range of 400 km as opposed to the 290 km range of the original version.

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Then again in December 2020, India successfully tested the anti-ship version of BrahMos from Andaman and Nicobar Island territory.

In September 2020, India successfully test-fired the extended range surface-to-surface variant of BrahMos by the DRDO at the Integrated Test Range (ITR) in Balasore, Odisha. The missile achieved a top speed of 2.8 Mach.

Philippines in January had signed a USD 374.96 million deal with BrahMos Aerospace Pvt. Ltd. to supply shore-based anti-ship variants of the supersonic cruise missile.

BrahMos is said to be the world’s fastest supersonic cruise missile.

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