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India and Russia plan to boost the range of BrahMos short-range cruise missile 10202171.
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Russia’s Machine-Building Scientific and Production Association is planning to boost the range of the BrahMos cruise missile jointly produced with India, Company CEO and General Designer Alexander Leonov said.
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 Indian TEL (Transporter Erector Launcher) of BrahMos short-range supersonic cruise missile |
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"There will be a noticeable increase in the missile’s range, not by several times but noticeable," he said.
The company has already started the research stage to increase the cruise missile’s range.The second stage, during which the research work will be embodied in a real project, will take from two to three years, Leonov said. The BrahMos is a short-range supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is produced by Russian-Indian Brahmos Aerospace Company set up by Russia’s Machine-Building Scientific and Production Association and India’s Defense Research and Development Organization in 1998. The ship and land-based BrahMos missiles can carry a conventional semi-armour-piercing warhead of 200 kg, while the aerial variant can carry a 300 kg warhead. These missiles can intercept surface targets as low as 10m in altitude. The missile’s name comes from the names of two rivers, i.e. the Brahmaputra and the Moskva. The missile has a range of 290 kilometers (180 miles) and carries a warhead weighing from 200 to 300 kilograms. |
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