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| India Modifies Brahmos Missile with New Nav System | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 9 2012, 11:39 PM (398 Views) | |
| gary oldman | Oct 9 2012, 11:39 PM Post #1 |
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![]() India has uprated its BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles by installing the advanced satellite navigation systems from Russia's Kh-555 and Kh-101 strategic long-range cruise missiles, adding GPS-GLONASS technology to the existing doppler-inertial platform, Izvestia reported on Tuesday quoting sources in the military-industrial complex. The integration of the navigation systems from Kh-555 will turn BrahMos, a supersonic cruise missile, into a "super-rocket" with almost a sub-strategic capability above its normal tactical range, capable of hitting targets over 180-300 miles (300-500 km), from sea, land and air launchers, and capable of being armed with a nuclear warhead, the source said. The installation of the advanced navigation system is optimised for the new air-launched version of BrahMos, which will be carried by India's Russian-built Sukhoi Su-30MKI strike fighters. India plans to deploy over 200 of the advanced aircraft by 2020. The combination of air-launched BrahMos with the Su-30 will give India a long-range strike capability similar to Russia's Tu-95MS and Tu-160 strategic bombers, said aviation analyst and editor of Vzlet magazine Vladimir Sherbakov. "This missile is an important element in the military power of the Indian armed forces and our Indian partners have placed a lot of faith in it," he said. The Indian Navy carried out a successful test-firing of the sea-launched variant of the weapon on October 7 from the frigate INS Teg off the coast of Goa, the New Indian Express reported. BrahMos can reach a speed of Mach 2.8 at levels as low as 30 feet (10 m) or fly high-profile diving attacks. The missile was jointly developed by Russia and India, based on the NPO Mashinostroyenie 3M55 Onyx (NATO SS-N-26). |
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| arnie | Oct 10 2012, 02:29 PM Post #2 |
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So now Brahmos can hit target even at 500 kms. Thats more like it
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| gary oldman | Oct 10 2012, 07:12 PM Post #3 |
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I think it"ll be the best weapon to be available in the market........Stealth supersonic cruise missile which travels at speeds of Mach 2.8-mach 3 carrying a nuclear warhead that can strikes targets as far as 500 kms.. moreover imagine this thing mentioned below.... Future variants Brahmos-2 BrahMos-2 is a stealth hypersonic cruise missile currently under development.[6][76] and has a range of 290 km.[77] The range of Brahmos-2 has been regulated to 290 km as Russia is a signatory of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) which does not allow it to help other countries to develop missiles with ranges above 300 kilometres.[77] With a speed of Mach 7 it will have a speed double the speed of the current Brahmos-1, and it has accordingly been branded as the fastest hypersonic missile in the world [78][79] BrahMos II land variant design has been completed and 4 surface to surface variants are ready to be tested. Rest of the variants will be tested in the successive years of 2012-13, design is projected to be completed by October 2011 [80] and will arm the Project 15B destroyers of the Indian Navy. In Russian navy project 21956 Destroyers are most likely to be equipped with BrahMos II.[81 |
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