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BrahMos missile test-fired successfully

Balasore (Orissa), Dec 2
India successfully test-fired the 290-km range BrahMos cruise missile from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur off the Orissa coast today.

The supersonic cruise missile, with precision strike capability, was test-fired from a mobile launcher at 11.00 hrs from the launch pad no. 3 of the ITR, defence sources said.

“The trial was successful,” they said. The missile, which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound, is capable of carrying conventional warheads up to 300 kg for a range of 290 km. The missile can effectively engage ground targets from an altitude as low as 10 meters, they said.

The 8.4 meter-long missile is a two-stage vehicle that has a solid propellant booster and a liquid propellant ram-jet system. The Balasore district administration, on the advice of defence authorities, had temporarily shifted 3,220 persons belonging to 401 families residing within two km radius of the launch pad to two nearby shelter centres as a safety measures during the missile test.

BrahMos is capable of being launched from multiple platforms like submarine, ship, aircraft and land based Mobile Autonomous Launchers.

One regiment of the 290-km range BrahMos-I variant, which consists of 67 missiles, five mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles and two mobile command posts, among other equipment, is already operational in the Indian Army, the sources said.

The Indian Navy has started the process of inducting the first version of BrahMos missile system in all frontline warships from 2005. — PTI

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Tejas makes rapid strides

BANGALORE: Inching closer to obtaining initial operational clearance, the fourth-limited production platform of the indigenous light combat aircraft Tejas on Tuesday successfully tested firing the Russian R-73 missile for close combats. A Tejas detachment has been operating from a naval airfield at Goa to conduct the last phase of flight trials. One of the main objectives of the current phase of flight trials was clearing the firing envelope of air-to-air close combat missile from the Tejas. 

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