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Thursday, June 01, 2006

Surface-to-surface version of Brahmos tested

A Surface-to-Surface version of the Indo-Russian Brahmos cruise missile was today successfully test fired in "user configuration" in the Pokhran desert, giving India a new capability of mounting nuclear warheads on land-based supersonic missiles.

"The 12th land-to-land test firing of the missile was carried out by trained army personnel in the presence of Army Chief Gen J J Singh and other top brass," a defence ministry statement said here.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has already built a specialised wheeled launch vehicle for the missile and officials said that the supersonic missile with a range of over 300 km was test fired from this mobile launcher.

"The missile followed a pre-determined trajectory at a very low altitude impacting with precision on a designated land target," officials said .

Singh, who was present at the launch, termed the test as 100 per cent successful. Also present to witness the test firing were Scientific Advisor to the Defence Minister Dr M Natrajan and Dr A Sivathanu Pillai, Chief Executive officer of the Brahmos Aerospace programme.

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