Brahmos Missile

• Indian Navy successfully test-fired ship-launched version of BrahMos missile with an indigenous seeker and booster in Arabian Sea.
• Earlier, Indian Air Force had also successfully tested BrahMos missile from Sukhoi Su-30 MKI aircraft.

About Brahmos missile

• BrahMos is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land having range of 450 km.
• It is a joint venture of India and Russia and it’s named after rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva.
• It is a two-stage missile with solid propellant booster engine as its first stage and a liquid ramjet as second stage.
• Operates on Fire and Forget principle.
• It flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times speed of sound.