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New BrahMos test successful T.S. Subramanian CHENNAI: A new version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile meant to attack a particular target out of a cluster on land was successfully tested at the Army’s range at Pokhran, Rajasthan, on Wednesday.
This was its 19th flight and the launch took place at 10.35 a.m. In its previous flight on January 20 it missed the target following a software glitch.
This variant is called the Block II version. BrahMos is essentially an anti-ship missile.
Informed sources described it as “a difficult mission” because the target was just 50 km away instead of the normal range of 290 km. Besides, the missile had to perform “a discriminatory role”: it had to hit the desired target out of a cluster of small targets, resembling “a factory-type situation.” The time given to the missile to perform manoeuvres and hit the target was much less than the normal flight. But these “constraints were overcome” with the Global Positioning System (GPS) update coming in correctly and the missile homed in on the desired target, sources said.
The missile flew at a velocity of Mach 2, twice the speed of sound. The normal version flies at Mach 3.
Last time the missile failed to hit the target as the GPS did not have time to correct the error in the inertial navigation system (INS). So the GPS update did not come in. This time, the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) ensured that even if the GPS update did not flow in, the missile would hit the target. Modifications were made in the software and simulation runs conducted.
The launch met different mission requirements.



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(DRDO) ensured that even if the GPS update did not flow in, the missile would hit the target.
OK. So doubts on INS are clear I hope.
 

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Cruising Ahead

India’s Strategic Trump BrahMos

By Dr Monika Chansoria Published : July 2009



New Delhi. India’s rise to strategic prominence in the Indian subcontinent has been well-matched by the fluidity of its geo-political environment and, consequently, makes for a strong case for New Delhi to assume the role of a major player in shaping the regional order. Although current strategic trends lean heavily towards the continuation of sub-conventional conflict, conventional conflict cannot be negated altogether, especially given the reality of India’s unresolved territorial and boundary disputes with its neighbours.



The past decades have been witness to phenomenal surges in missile technology and intrusions into outer space. India, however, did not have a credible missile programme through which it could boast of a sturdy arsenal of missile systems. In what could be described as a ‘decisive shift’ in missile development plans, the missile capability of Indian armed forces received a major fillip from the Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) following the launching of the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP) in 1983.

The aim was to develop a family of strategic and tactical guided missiles based on local design and development. The aim was to manufacture a range of missile systems for the three defence services. Since then, the IGMDP has tasted significant success as far as two of its most significant constituents i.e., the Agni and Prithvi missile systems are concerned. However, due to their strategic nature, these were not meant for use in conventional war at theatre levels. Of the two other programmes, the Akash SAM is just about ready for manufacture following acceptance by Indian Air Force (IAF) while the anti-tank Nag Missile is still in the development stage.

New Delhi has been on the look out for a long-range weapon option for the Indian Armed Forces that would also be available to the field force commanders with meaningful accuracy to influence the outcome of operations.

This was in addition to the realisation towards the need for indigenous cruise missile technology and, consequently, India chose the supersonic route to develop the BrahMos—the first of its kind in the world. It is the product of a joint venture between India’s DRDO and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroeyenia, who mutually formed the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited. The acronym BrahMos is perceived as the confluence of the strategic interests of the two nations represented by their rivers, namely the Brahmaputra (India) and the Moskva (Russia).

BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land. The BrahMos developers have come up with successful development of an anti-ship and land attack capability. As a general principle, cruise missiles do not possess defensive capabilities that permit them to withstand an attack. Therefore, the survivability of a cruise missile after it is launched is crucially dependent on stealth in navigation and minimising the interval between the time that enemy air defence systems detect its presence and the time it takes for the cruise missile to arrive at its designated target.

This interval is a function of the speed of the cruise missile and the distance at which it is detected.

In order to saturate defenses, minimising the time available to the defender for engaging the cruise missiles is crucial. Going by an initial assumption that there is one defender and that the cruise missile has perfect lethality, the number of incoming missiles that will saturate defences would ultimately be determined by the number of times that the defender can engage the same.

A significant increase in the speed of a cruise missile always adds to its lethality.

BrahMos is among the fastest supersonic cruise missiles in the world, at speeds ranging between Mach 2.5 to 2.8, being about three and a half times faster than the American subsonic Tomahawk cruise missile. An important exception, however, is the Russian Alfa cruise missile, capable of speeds in excess of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound).



While speaking at the Firepower India 2009 seminar, jointly organised by India Strategic and the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi, Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Controller, DRDO and CMD, BrahMos Aerospace, stated that the Gulf War-I was a turning point towards the growing significance of cruise missiles. The numerous dimensions of firepower in future wars was amply clear.

Commenting on India’s precarious strategic environment that includes China’s nursing superpower ambitions, Dr Pillai stressed the need for a systematically planned long-term doctrine.

He also emphasised that future wars would ‘intelligent, autonomous and network centric’ for which BrahMos has emerged as the perfect strike weapon with a fine combination of speed, precision, power, kinetic energy and reaction time attributes. In fact, India is the only country in the world to have inducted the supersonic land-attack cruise missile in its army.

The Strategic Triad

Advent of the BrahMos gave the Indian armed forces, the much needed capability to undertake deep surgical strikes against a country that attacks India. The high speed of the BrahMos gives it better target-penetration characteristics as compared to slower subsonic cruise missiles such as the Tomahawk. BrahMos is a multi-platform cruise missile enabling it to strike from various types of land, sea and air-based platforms, including mobile and fixed ones. Possession of such weapon systems in the Indian arsenal would successfully prevent any hostile ship close within an operational range of 290 kms at sea.

Although BrahMos is primarily an anti-ship missile, it is also capable of engaging land-based targets.

Between late 2004 and early 2008, the missile has undergone several tests from variety of platforms including a land-based test from the Pokhran desert in western India, in which the S maneuver at Mach 2.8 was demonstrated for the Indian Army and a launch in which the land attack capability from sea was also verified. Presently, the Indian Army has one regiment armed with the Block I version of the BrahMos missile with the first battery entering service in June 2007. Each battery is equipped with four mobile launchers mounted on heavy 12x12 Tatra transporters. The Army plans to induct three more such batteries.

In a planned launch for the Army in January 2009, a new BrahMos Block II version was launched at Pokhran during trial in vertical mode – a configuration likely to be used for land forces based operations. The missile failed to hit the target due to glitches in the homing device.

However, in a subsequent test on March 29, 2009, the Indian Army tested the land attack version of BrahMos Block II with advanced seeker software with target discriminating capabilities from a mobile autonomous launcher at the same Pokhran test range.

According to a statement released by the DRDO, “The missile took off successfully and hit the desired target at bull’s eye meeting all mission parameters.” With the successful completion of this test, the development phase of the Block II version of BrahMos stands complete and is ready for induction in the army. The test-launch in March 2009 was crucial towards the realisation of the Army’s objective to induct the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile as a ‘precision-strike weapon’.

DRDO has claimed that BrahMos would be able to start deliveries of the 240 missiles ordered by the army in two years from now as per the original schedule.

On March 30, Vice Chief of the Army Staff Lt Gen Noble Thamburaj confirmed the successful test while inaugurating the India Strategic-CLAWS’ FirePower 2009 seminar, adding that the Army had decided to induct it.

The Indian Navy too, has already inducted the anti-ship Block I naval version into service with its integration on the destroyer INS Rajput, a Kashin class destroyer acquired from the erstwhile Soviet Union. The ship is used extensively for BrahMos tests.

BrahMos has now emerged as the main anti-ship strike weapon and is capable of flying from a sea-skimming height of just 10 metres above the waves to an altitude of 15 kms. While it can achieve a maximum velocity of Mach 2 in the denser air at sea level, this goes up to Mach 2.7 in the rarefied upper atmosphere above 7 kms. Moreover, INS Ranjit is next in line among eight warships that the Indian Navy has planned to equip with the BrahMos—fitted with four missile launchers, two on each side of the vessel.

While the first two launch platforms have already been deployed, the submarine-launched system is yet to be tested, and the air-launched version is still under development, likely to be deployed on the Sukhoi Su-30 fighter-bomber by 2012.

It was reported in January 2009 that two Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30MKI fighter jets were sent to Russia for a retrofit programme that would enable them to launch the aerial version of the BrahMos missile.

The aerial version is reported to be nine metres long and once fitted, it can auto-launch itself towards the target after being released from the aircraft by the pilot. When the air-launched version is complete, the BrahMos would have the rare distinction of becoming the only cruise missile with the capability of being launched from land, sea and air.

In addition, a hypersonic version of the missile is also presently under development (lab-tested with Mach 5.26 speed).

The emergence of the BrahMos as a top-notch weapon system in the world in its category includes research, development as well as establishment of facilities for production. BrahMos has often been compared with other weapon systems of the world in terms of cost.

For such a complex weapon system, there are varieties of cost imponderables. Notwithstanding the same, when compared with other weapon systems of its class, BrahMos continues to remain the most cost effective option owing to the following factors:

* Technology used
* R&D effort
* Dividends in terms of accuracy, speed, reliability, shoot capability and ease at operation
* Ease of maintenance and comparison of down time
* Least collateral damage reducing fear of escalation of war beyond threshold level
* Universality of missile as regards to the use from variety of platforms
* Shelf life
* Ability to form part of network centric warfare
* Capability to engage more than one target with salvo option from the same platform
* Availability of spares back up
* Is fired from its storage canister
* Number of associated sub-systems required to operationalise the complete weapon system
* Comparison of manpower required to operationalise the system vis-à-vis other systems


Due to the onboard inertial navigation system with three gyroscopes and three accelerometers, BrahMos is a ‘fire and forget’ weapon, requiring no further guidance from the control centre once the target has been assigned and it is launched.

Upon completion of assembly, it has a 10-year shelf life, requiring a routine preventive maintenance check once every three years.

With decline in the cost of modern technologies, the overall cost effectiveness of cruise missiles has increased, and this element might alter the fundamental role of cruise missiles and airpower. The evidence is that a comparison of the cost-effectiveness of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles will favour cruise missiles because these cost on average only 15 percent of the cost of ballistic missiles.

Furthermore, cruise missiles fly at low altitudes and have the ability to evade enemy radars and air-defence systems.


Fig: Cost comparison of Cruise Missiles and Aircraft Delivered Munitions

Conclusion

It is plausible to assume that cruise missiles constitute an important element of the military arsenals for many nations including India owing to the costs, both absolute and in comparison with other aerial weapons.

Since cruise missiles are capable of delivering ordnance over great distances with a high degree of accuracy, they are widely being viewed as a strategically significant weapon of the 21st century to achieve politico-military goals.

Significantly, the tactical capability of cruise missiles implies that it would be exceedingly difficult to defend against them, in part because of the possibility that the defences could be saturated by mass attacks. In India’s case, the requirement for rapid induction of the advanced BrahMos systems cannot be overstated especially given that the Pakistan Army is inducting its nuclear-capable Babur land-attack cruise missile, developed with Chinese assistance, to strike at a range over 500 kms, in large numbers into its arsenal.

In the event that future wars will be limited in aims, objectives, application of force levels and time frame, only a joint air and land campaign with massive firepower asymmetry will enable successful achievement of military objectives.

The conceptual aspects of modern artillery firepower are witness to altering trend lines from manoeuvre to attrition, neutralisation to destruction, ‘dumb’ to ‘smart/intelligent’ munitions and linear operations to simultaneity of engagement. The emergence of BrahMos has not only strengthened India’s technological base but also elevated its image worldwide.

Thus the contribution of the BrahMos to India’s defence is fundamentally significant in a quest to maximise its firepower potential to counter a future military attack.

The author is Research Fellow, Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi.

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Project related to Brahmos to come up near Pilani

Jaipur, Jan 15 (PTI) A project related to the Brahmos cruise missile will be set up near Pilani in Rajasthan at a cost of Rs 200 crore, an official spokesman said today.

Defence Research and Development Organisation Chief Controller-Research Dr A Shivthnau Pillai today met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and thanked the government for allocating 80 hectares of land for the project, the spokesman said.

About 150 experts would be employed for this project, Pillai apprised the CM.

Presenting a model of the missile to the chief minister, the DRDO official said that at present the missile was being assembled at Hyderabad.

DRDO had asked the state government to provide land for the project which was approved and sanctioned by Gehlot without delay, the spokesman said.
 

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BrahMos missiles to be assembled at Pilani

Special Correspondent, JAIPUR, January 16, 2010


File picture of the BrahMos missile system. Photo: Rajeev Bhatt

The country’s next assembling centre for the prestigious BrahMos missiles will be Rajasthan’s Pilani. The State Government has already allocated 80 hectares of land near Pilani town, better known for its Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani) for this purpose.

At present the BrahMos missiles, a joint venture of India and Russia, are assembled in Hyderabad. There is also a Brahmos Aerospace Thiruvananthapuram Limited near the Kerala capital.

The Chief Controller of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Chief Executive Officer of BrahMos Board, Sivthanu Pillai, was here over the weekend in this connection. He met Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and promised to start work on the new centre at the earliest. He thanked the State Government for the allocation of land and presented to Mr. Gehlot a model of Brahmos missile.

Extolling Brahmos as the fastest missile in the world, Dr. Pillai told Mr. Gehlot that an investment of Rs.200 crore would be made on the new centre. The missile moves three times faster than the speed of sound, he pointed out.

The new centre would recruit about 150 technical experts and people from Rajasthan would be given preference in recruitments, he promised the Chief Minister.

It was DRDO’s proposal that a BrahMos project be set up in Pilani. It had approached the State with a request for allotment of land. In fact, eminent missile scientist and former President of India A. P. J. Abdul Kalam during his visit to BITS Pilani in March-April 2007 to address students there had spoken about possible linkages with the students of the Institute and the country’s missile programme.
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Army plans induction of BrahMos with 'surgical strike' option

NEW DELHI: Army is going in for a major induction of BrahMos Block-II land-attack cruise missiles (LACM), which have been designed as "precision strike weapons" capable of hitting small targets in cluttered urban environments.

Sources say the defence ministry will ``soon'' approach the Cabinet Committee on Security, chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, for the green signal to arm the Army with two regiments of the BrahMos Block-II land-attack cruise missiles (LACM).

Swift induction of BrahMos Block-II is necessary because Pakistan Army is inducting its nuclear-capable Babur LACM, developed with China's help to have a 500-km strike range, in large numbers. BrahMos-II can potentially be used for ``surgical strikes'' at terror training camps across the border without causing collateral damage.

One regiment of the 290-km range BrahMos-I variant, which consists of 67 missiles, five mobile autonomous launchers on 12x12 Tatra vehicles and two mobile command posts, among other equipment, is already operational in the Army. It had earlier ordered two BrahMos regiments in the first phase at a cost of Rs 8,352 crore.

The BrahMos Block-II variant has been developed to take out a specific small target, with a low radar cross-section, in a multi-target environment.

The air-breathing missile, which flies at speeds up to 2.8 Mach (almost three times the speed of sound), of course, does not come cheap. With `multi-spectral seekers' for `target-discriminating capabilities', each missile costs upwards of Rs 25 crore.

Incidentally, Indian Navy too has inducted BrahMos's naval variant on some warships, having earlier placed orders worth Rs 711 crore for 49 firing units.

While these missiles are fired from `inclined launchers', Navy is also gearing up to induct `vertical launchers'.

This is significant since `vertical launchers' are fitted under the warship's deck, protecting them from the atmospheric conditions and imparting some stealth to the weapon system. It also allows the missile to be fired in any direction.

Two such modules, with 16 missiles, are to fitted in each of the three Kolkata-class P-15A destroyers being built at Mazagon Docks at a cost of Rs 11,662 crore.

BrahMos will also arm the three more Talwar-class `stealth' frigates being built at Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad (Russia) under a Rs 5,514-crore project.

But the work on submarine and air-launched versions of BrahMos is still going quite slow. While talks with Russia are now in the final stages for BrahMos' integration with Sukhoi-30MKI fighters, the missile will be tested for the first time from submersible pontoon launchers this year in preparation for their induction on submarines.

India and Russia have also begun preliminary work on a ``hypersonic'' BrahMos-2 missile capable of flying at a speed between 5 and 7 Mach, as reported earlier.

The armed forces' eventual plan, of course, is to have nuclear-tipped LACMs, with strike ranges over 1,500 km. Unlike ballistic missiles like Agni, cruise missiles do not leave the atmosphere and are powered and guided throughout their flight path.

Cruise missiles, which can evade enemy radars and air defence systems since they fly at low altitudes, are also much cheaper as well as more accurate and easier to operate than ballistic missiles.

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January 26, 2010: The Indian Army is trying to get the government to buy it two more regiments of BrahMos block II missiles. Each regiment would have 61 missiles, 12-24 mobile launchers and two mobile control centers. The new regiments would have a more advanced version of the missile than the existing BrahMos block I regiment (with five mobile launchers). The first regiment cost $83 million. The block II missiles are more accurate and reliable at hitting pinpoint targets (like headquarters or technical installations) in crowded urban environments.

A year ago, the BrahMos block II cruise missile failed its first operational test as a ground launched weapon. The cause was a defective guidance system, which was fixed.

Two years ago, India ordered 800 more of the new PJ-10 BrahMos missiles. The Indian Army plans to buy 80 launchers in the next ten years. Russia has not yet ordered any BrahMos, while India is also working on lighter versions for use by aircraft and submarines. The 3.2 ton BrahMos has a range of 300 kilometers and a 660 pound warhead. Perhaps the most striking characteristic is its high speed, literally faster (at up to 3,000 feet per second) than a rifle bullet. Guidance is GPS or inertial to reach the general area of the target (usually a ship or other small target), then radar that will identify the specific target and hit it. The warhead weighs 660 pounds, and the high speed at impact causes additional damage (because of the weight of the entire missile.)

India and Russia developed the weapon together, and now offer the BrahMos for export. The high price of each missile, about $2-3 million (depending on the version), restricts the number of countries that can afford it. The weapon entered service with the Indian navy in 2005. Different versions of the PJ-10 can be fired from aircraft, ships, ground launchers or submarines. The maximum speed of 3,000 kilometers an hour makes it harder to intercept, and means it takes five minutes or less to reach its target. The air launched version weighs 2.5 tons, the others, three tons or more.

The 9.4 meter (29 foot) long, 670mm diameter missile is an upgraded version of the Russian SS-NX-26 (Yakhont) missile, which was still in development when the Cold War ended in 1991. Lacking money to finish development and begin production, the Russian manufacturer eventually made a deal with India to finish the job. India put up most of the $240 million needed to finally complete two decades of development. The PJ-10 is being built in Russia and India, with the Russians assisting India in setting up manufacturing facilities for cruise missile components. Efforts are being made to export up to 2,000, but no one has placed an order yet. Russia and India are encouraged enough to invest in BrahMos 2, which will use a scramjet, instead of a ramjet, in the second stage. This would double speed, and make the missile much more difficult to defend against.

India indicates it plans to make the missile a major weapon system. The BrahMos can carry a nuclear warhead, but is designed mainly to go after high value targets that require a large warhead and great accuracy. The BrahMos could take out enemy headquarters, or key weapons systems (especially those employing electronic or nuclear weapons.)
 

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BRAHMOS: The most sophisticated cruise missile in the world :: Brahmand.com


BRAHMOS is not just transfer of technology but mutual production & upgradation of technology so as to ensure that country become self-sufficient in supersonic strategic missile capacity. Excerpts from an exclusive interview with Dr. AS Pillai published in the Super India Financial News (SIFN).

SIFN: Would you please tell us about BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile?

Dr. AS Pillai: BRAHMOS is a precision strike weapon for Army, Navy, Airforce. This universal missile can be fitted in ships, Mobile Launchers, Submarines and Aircrafts. The target can be any large value installation on ground, sea or shore.

The missile has flight range of up to 290-km with supersonic speed all through, leading to shorter flight time, consequently ensuring lower dispersion of targets, quicker engagement time and non-interception by any known weapon system.

It operates on 'Fire and Forget Principle' adopting varieties of flight trajectories on its way to the target. Its destructive power is enhanced due to large kinetic energy on impact. Its crusing altitude could be upto 15 km and terminal altitude is as low as 10 meters.

It carries a conventional warhead weighing 200 to 300 kgs. Compared to existing state-of-the-art subsonic cruise missiles, BRAHMOS has 3 times more velocity, 2.5 to 3 times more flight range, 3 to 4 times more seeker range & 9 times more kinetic energy.

SIFN: What is the basic aim behind development of supersonic missile?

Dr. AS Pillai: In Gulf war, more than 650 missiles were fired at different targets and 70% could have destroyed important targets deceiving enemy radars. Now there are attempts to intercept these subsonic cruise missiles. Hence it is necessary not to give indication that the missile is coming to targets. This can be done by increasing the speed and stealth characteristics of the missile. Today, India has an edge over other countries.

SIFN: What is the major significance of BRAHMOS missile?

Dr. AS Pillai: It reaches the target fast because of its high speed & secondly, it gives less time to the enemy to react. It creates massive damage due to its super speed because the Kinetic energy is velocity square. BRAHMOS is 9 times more powerful in destroying the targets compared to existing cruise missiles in the world. Indian Army is the only Land Force in the world to have supersonic precision strike cruise missile.

SIFN: When will BRAHMOS be introduced to all the branches of armed forces?

Dr. AS Pillai: Ship based Weapon Complex in Inclined and Vertical configuration & Land Based Weapon Complex with Mobile Autonomous Launchers are already in service with the Navy and Army. In the next two years Airforce will also have BRAHMOS missile. The development of air-launched version Su-30MKI is in progress.

SIFN: What is the basic objective behind taking over KELTEC?

Dr. AS Pillai: We wanted to increase our productive capacity. So, were looking at various options other than Hyderabad due to shortage of space. Kerala govt. approached the defence ministry for them to take over KELTEC. An offer was made to BrahMos and we were ready to take over KELTEC. Government agreed to invest Rs. 125 cr. to KELTEC for supporting BRAHMOS production and for upkeeping the manufacturing capabilities. So KELTEC was transferred as BrahMos Thiruvananthapuram Ltd. After being taken over by BrahMos there has been a total transformation. It is now an ISO 9100 certified aerospace industry, with high level of quality products being manufactured for ISRO, DRDO & BrahMos. Presently some of BrahMos subsystems are being produced there. In the next two years, integration of BRAHMOS missile will be carried out at the complex.

SIFN: What is the current production capacity & what is your future target?

Dr. AS Pillai: This is one of the most successful financial ventures for India and Russia With minimum investment maximum production has been achieved of a globally competitive product. Presently, we have a limited capacity. We are augmenting them to meet the requirements of Indian Armed Forces.

SIFN: Which countries do you want to export BRAHMOS missiles?

Dr. AS Pillai: There are a number of countries which are keen to have BRAHMOS missiles. It is upto the Indian and Russian Governments to decide which countries we can sell.

SIFN: What is your future expansion plan?

Dr. AS Pillai: We are working on many directions including new aerospace products. BRAHMOS-II should be our future prime product.
 

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India to buy more BrahMos missiles | Top Russian news and analysis online | 'RIA Novosti' newswire

India has plans to introduce into its armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Established in 1998, BrahMos Aerospace, a joint Indian-Russian venture, produces and markets BrahMos supersonic missiles. The sea-based and land-based versions have been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian Army and Navy.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russia's security chief, Nikolai Patrushev, visited the BrahMos headquarters in New Delhi. BrahMos is an acronym for the cities of Brahmaputra and Moscow.

The missile, known as BrahMos Block-2, can have a top speed of over Mach 5, which could make it virtually impossible to intercept, and can effectively engage even slightly visible ground targets. It has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the army.

"The army officials said they were pleased with last year's ground trials of the missile, and approved of putting it into service," Pillai said.

The company has also been developing another version of the missile for Air Force, the BrahMos-A missile, with a reduced mass and increased aerodynamic stability. The Indian Air Force chose the Russian-made SU-30 MKI Flanker-H multirole fighter as the trial platform for the missile.

"[This] version of the missile is now ready. Air trials will commence in 2011, and by 2012, we are planning to fit the missiles onto aircraft," Pillai said.

The required modifications of the SU-30 MKI for integration with the BrahMos-A missile system are being carried out by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia's Sukhoi Design Bureau.

Analysts estimate that India could purchase up to 1,000 BrahMos missiles for its armed forces in the next decade, and export some 500 to other countries during the same period.

NEW DELHI, February 2 (RIA Novosti)
 

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BrahMos installation test flight in Baltic Sea



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Launcher transported to Kaliningrad and fitted into frigate









Russian National Security Adviser Nikolai Patroshev (left) with A. Sivathanu Pillai, Managing Director of BrahMos Aerospace Limited, at the BrahMos Complex in New Delhi on Tuesday. - PHOTO COURTESY: BRAHMOS AEROSPACE


CHENNAI: An installation test flight of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is scheduled to take place this year in the Baltic Sea from a stealth frigate being built for the Indian Navy at Kaliningrad in Russia, A. Sivathanu Pillai, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, BrahMos Aerospace Limited, said on Tuesday.

The missile's vertical launcher and fire control system, made in India, was transported to Kaliningrad and fitted into the stealth frigate, a Talwar-class ship.

Dr. Pillai disclosed this when Russian National Security Advisor Nikolai Patroshev, along with Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, visited the BrahMos Complex in New Delhi.

The BrahMos missile is a joint product of India and Russia and it has already been inducted into the Indian Navy and Army.

Patroshev is all praise

Mr. Patroshev, who is leading a high-level delegation, lauded the development of the BrahMos as a remarkable achievement made in a short time. "The joint venture BrahMos is a bright illustration of the successful work of the Russian and Indian scientists and designers. It is based on the highest trust."

Mr. Kadakin said the best brains of the two countries coming together made the system highly advanced and reliable.

Dr. Pillai gave an account of the progress made by the joint venture in the last 10 years and the possible areas for future collaboration. The Russian delegation's visit would further encourage the joint venture, he said.

Three Talwar-class ships to be built for the Indian Navy by Russia would have Brah- Mos missiles.

There are four versions of BrahMos now: sea-to-sea; sea-to-land; land-to-sea; and land-to-land. Work on launching the cruise missile from submarines and aircraft was in progress, Dr. Pillai said.

Impossible to intercept K.V. Prasad reports from New Delhi:

Established in 1998, Brah- Mos Aerospace, produces and markets the BrahMos supersonic missiles. Known as BrahMos Block-2, the missile has a top speed of over Mach 5, making it virtually impossible to intercept, and it can effectively engage even slightly visible ground targets. It has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the Army.

"Army officials said they were pleased with last year's ground trials of the missile, and approved putting it into service," Russian news agency Ria-Novosti said, quoting Dr. Pillai.

The company has also been working on another version of the missile, BrahMos-A for the Air Force. The IAF selected the multirole fighter Sukhoi- MKI as the platform for trials scheduled for next year and targets fitment in 2012. Modifications to Su-30 MKI for integration with the BrahMos-A missile system are being carried out by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Russia's Sukhoi Design Bureau.
 

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India to buy more BrahMos missiles

New Delhi: India has plans to introduce into its armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai, told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

Established in 1998, BrahMos Aerospace, a joint Indian-Russian venture, produces and markets BrahMos supersonic missiles. The sea-based and land-based versions have been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian Army and Navy.

Earlier on Tuesday, Russia's security chief, Nikolai Patrushev, visited the BrahMos headquarters in New Delhi. BrahMos is an acronym for the cities of Brahmaputra and Moscow.

The missile, known as BrahMos Block-2, can have a top speed of over Mach 5, which could make it virtually impossible to intercept, and can effectively engage even slightly visible ground targets. It has been designed primarily to meet the needs of the army.

"The army officials said they were pleased with last year's ground trials of the missile, and approved of putting it into service," Pillai said.

The company has also been developing another version of the missile for Air Force, the BrahMos-A missile, with a reduced mass and increased aerodynamic stability. The Indian Air Force chose the Russian-made SU-30 MKI Flanker-H multirole fighter as the trial platform for the missile.

"[This] version of the missile is now ready. Air trials will commence in 2011, and by 2012, we are planning to fit the missiles onto aircraft," Pillai said.

The required modifications of the SU-30 MKI for integration with the BrahMos-A missile system are being carried out by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Russia's Sukhoi Design Bureau.

Analysts estimate that India could purchase up to 1,000 BrahMos missiles for its armed forces in the next decade, and export some 500 to other countries during the same period.

http://www.defencetalk.com/india-to-buy-more-brahmos-missiles-24011/
 
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BRAHMOS Missile to be test-fired in Russia for the first time

NEW DELHI (PTI):For the first time, 290 km-range BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile will be test-fired in Russia in September during its installation on Indian Navy's warships.

Installation test-flight of the missile will be held in the Baltic Sea from Navy's Talwar Class stealth frigates being constructed in Kaliningrad in Russia, Defence Ministry officials said on Wednesday.

Till now, the various versions of the missile have been test-fired 21 times and have been inducted in the Navy and the Army.

This would also be the first time when the missile would be test-fired from a newly-built warship, they added. Till now, the missiles were being fired from warships that were retrofitted to carry out the launches.

India has ordered three Talwar-class warships to be built in Russia and all three of them would be fitted with vertical launchers.

The vertical launchers and fire control system for the September test have already been shifted to Russia, officials said.

There are four versions of BRAHMOS including the sea-to-sea, sea-to-land, land-to-sea and land-to-land and the joint venture company is working on developing the cruise missile for submarine and fighter aircraft.

For the air-launched version, the first missile is expected to be test-fired from a Su-30MKI in Russia by December this year and the trials are planned to be completed by 2012.

The submarine-launched version is expected to be tested in the next couple of months where it will be fired from a pontoon off the Orissa coast.

BRAHMOS is an Indo-Russian joint venture cruise missile and has a top speed of 2.8 mach. Work is also on for developing the hypersonic version of the missile, which will have a speed of over 5 mach.

http://www.brahmand.com/news/BRAHMOS-Missile-to-be-test-fired-in-Russia-for-the-first-time/3080/1/11.html
 

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so now we have a rough price tag with brahMos:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/50312/russias-security-chief-visits-brahmos.html
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Each missile system costs nearly Rs.100 million ($2 million) and the BrahMos Aerospace Ltd plans to sell 1,000 of them.

The Indian Army has already begun inducting the land-fired version of the BrahMos, with the first battery entering service in June 2007. Each battery is equipped with four mobile launchers mounted on heavy 12×12 Tatra transporters. The army plans to induct three more such batteries.
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cross posting misleading heading but good news:

http://www.ptinews.com/news/500409_IAF-to-get-missile-armed-Su-30-MKI-fighters-by--12

Moscow, Feb 4 (PTI) Indian Air Force's multi-role Su-30 MKI fighters could be armed with supersonic cruise missiles by 2012, giving them the capability to strike ground targets from stand-off distance.

"The work to adopt the missile for deployment on fighter is being carried out by the Rosoboronexport, the Sukhoi Design Bureau and NPO Mashinostroyeniya (Russian partner in BrahMos JV)," a top official of the aircraft manufacturer has said, adding that the missiles could be mounted on the aircraft in two years.

With this, India would get the capability to fire these missiles from land, sea as well as air. BrahMos are already fitted on naval warships as well as inducted by the Army.

India and Russia are in the process of developing a hypersonic version of the missile.
 

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Do we have anti ship missiles in the range of 500>= km? I read somewhere that china has anti ship missiles with such range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802#YJ-83.2FC-803). That being the case how would brahmos help us when the enemy would even come within our firing range? Would it not be better to develop a version of brahmos/or a new missile with more range?
 

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Do we have anti ship missiles in the range of 500>= km? I read somewhere that china has anti ship missiles with such range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802#YJ-83.2FC-803). That being the case how would brahmos help us when the enemy would even come within our firing range? Would it not be better to develop a version of brahmos/or a new missile with more range?
As far as i heard Brahmos 2 will have longer range ....and moreover missile ranges are only as good as radar detection ranges so 300 seems like a fairly good range.....the only problem i see is if a hostile ship is detected by a UAV or recon Helo out of missile range then what do our ships do? anybody cares to clarify?
 

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Do we have anti ship missiles in the range of 500>= km? I read somewhere that china has anti ship missiles with such range (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-802#YJ-83.2FC-803). That being the case how would brahmos help us when the enemy would even come within our firing range? Would it not be better to develop a version of brahmos/or a new missile with more range?
Subsonic missiles with turbo jet engines will always have longer ranges . Brahmos sacrifices range for speed. Sub launched and air launched versions should be unbeatable.Also we got some stealth ships.
 
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As far as i heard Brahmos 2 will have longer range ....and moreover missile ranges are only as good as radar detection ranges so 300 seems like a fairly good range.....the only problem i see is if a hostile ship is detected by a UAV or recon Helo out of missile range then what do our ships do? anybody cares to clarify?
It will be blatant violation of the MTCR....
 

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No satish it will not be violation if it totally made by a country which is not a signatory of MTCR (correct me if my understanding is wrong)
 

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Sathish meant russia cannot share anything as it is a signatory
 

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