BrahMos Missile Test-Fired From Stealth Destroyer INS Chennai

Chennai: In a major boost for Indian armed forces, India on Sunday successfully test fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) said a statement that BrahMos performed high-level & extremely complex manoeuvres before hitting the target successfully with pinpoint accuracy.

BrahMos as ‘prime strike weapon’ will ensure the invincibility of INS Chennai by engaging naval surface targets at long ranges, said DRDO. It added that  the successful test-firing of BrahMos will make INS Chennai another lethal platform of Indian Navy. Notably, BrahMos has been jointly designed, developed and produced by India and Russia. On September 30, a BrahMos missile having a range of around 400 km was tested from an integrated test range at Balasore in Odisha. A significant number of the original BrahMos missiles are already deployed by India in several strategic locations along the Line of Actual Control with China in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh.

The test firing of the BrahMos by DRDO comes at a time when India and China are locked in a tense border standoff along the LAC in eastern Ladakh. BrahMos missiles that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or from land platforms. In 2019, the Indian Air Force successfully test fired the aerial version of the BrahMos missile from a Su-30 MKI fighter aircraft.