India successfully tests supersonic cruise missile
India today successfully flight-tested its supersonic cruise missile 'Brahmos' in a desert in Rajasthan state.
The missile flew in the designated trajectory and hit the target with pin-point accuracy in the trial site in the desert at Pokhran, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted.
Pokharan is also the site where India had tested nuclear devices--first in 1974 and then in 1998.
"Formidable Supersonic Cruise Missile #BrahMos was successfully flight tested at 8:42 AM today at Pokhran test range, Rajasthan. The precision strike weapon with Indian-made seeker flew in its designated trajectory and hit the target with pin-point accuracy," she said in an official Twitter account post.
The flight-test today comes nearly four months after the Brahmos was successfully test-fired for the first time from the Indian Air Force's frontline Sukhoi-30 MKI combat jet.
The sleek supersonic cruise missile flies at almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8. The Indian armed forces have already inducted the 290-km range land and warship-based versions of the missile over the last decade.
Sitharaman congratulated state-owned Defence Research Development Organization, the armed forces and the defence industry for the successful flight test of the Brahmos and said it "will further bolster our national security."
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