Aerial, Underwater Variants of Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile Developed

BrahMos Aerospace has developed two more versions -- air and underwater variants -- of its supersonic missile BrahMos and is on course to develop hypersonic missiles that could cruise at speeds of 5-7 Mach, a top scientist has said.

Already four versions -- ship-to-ship, land-to-land, land-to-ship and ship-to-land -- had already been developed by the agency and the two new variants were now ready and in various stages of approval and test firing, BrahMos Aerospace chief executive and managing director A Sivathanu Pillai told media-persons in Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu on Thursday.

"We are very close to the launch of the under water version and the navy had to ready the requisite platform for the testing," Pillai said. For the air version, the development systems were ready and the integrated test would be undertaken after mock firing.

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