Important Facts For Prelims
BrahMos Missile
- 24 Oct 2019
- 1 min read
The Indian Air Force (IAF), recently, carried out successful firing of BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles from a mobile platform at Trak Island in Andaman Nicobar islands.
- IAF had previously successfully fired the land and air version of BrahMos missile.
- The BrahMos missile provides Indian Air Force a much desired capability to strike from large stand-off ranges on any target at sea or on land with pinpoint accuracy by day or night and in all weather conditions.
- The missile functions on the Fire and Forget principle with high accuracy.
- BrahMos is a 2.8 Mach state-of-art supersonic cruise missile designed and developed by the BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited (BAPL).
- BAPL was formed as a joint venture between the companies of India and Russia.
