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Thursday, January 22, 2009

BrahMos to be tested again within a month

PJ-10 Brahmos supersonic cruise missileA day after the land-attack version of BrahMos failed to perform properly during a test at the Pokhran firing range, defence scientists on Wednesday declared they would test-fire the supersonic cruise missile within a month after rectifying the errors.

"The missile in itself is proven. The test's main objective was to evaluate the new homing scheme for the Army's Block-II missiles to hit a specific small target, with a low radar cross-section, in a multi-target environment," BrahMos Aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai told TOI.

"The complicated mission called for an advanced algorithm and intelligence embedded in the missile.

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