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Indian Army to receive two more regiments of Brahmos short-range supersonic cruise missile 30104163.
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Indian Army to receive two more regiments of Brahmos short-range supersonic cruise missile | |||
Two more regiments of the short-range supersonic cruise missile, Brahmos, will be inducted into Army within next fifteen days, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said in Pune, India.
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Cruise missile Brahmos (Photo: NDTV)
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"The process of induction of two more regiments (of Brahmos missile) in the Indian Army is in the final stage and within 15 days, these regiments will be inducted in Indian Army," he said. It is in the final stage of approval, Parrikar said during an interaction with the media on the sidelines of the commissioning ceremony of the 50th batch of medical graduates at the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune. Launched from multiple platforms on land, ship, submarines and air, the BrahMos will raise India’s operational and strategic surface-to-surface missile capability, he said. These missiles, which can hit surface targets by flying as low as 10 metres above the ground, have been developed as a joint venture between India’s DRDO and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia under BrahMos Aerospace. Referring to the ‘Make in India’ initiative in the defence sector, Parrikar said the proposal to purchase regiments of the Pinaka rocket system also stands approved. The Brahmos is a short range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. It is based on the Russian P-800 Oniks cruise missile and other similar sea-skimming Russian cruise missile technology. It is the world's fastest anti-ship cruise missile in operation. The missile travels at speeds of Mach 2.8 to 3.0. |
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