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India Launches Brahmos

November 3, 2004 :: News

India test-fired a supersonic cruise missile Wednesday, launching it from an Indian destroyer near the eastern coast of Orissa. The Brahmos cruise missile, which has been developed jointly by India and Russia, is said to have a range of 290 kilometers with a conventional warhead—weighing, according to various reports, 200 or 300kg—and was designed to be launched from ships, submarines or planes. Today’s test reportedly took place from a destroyer, the INS Rajput, from the Bay of Bengal.

The name “Brahmos” reflects its joint development, apparently being derived from the Indian Brahmaputra river and Moscova in Russia.
        The Brahmos missile is said to weigh some three tons, be eight meters long, and have the capability to fly to a height of 14km at twice the speed of sound. It has been tested some six times since June 2001, most recently in November 2003. (Article)

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