BrahMos air version to be tested before year-end

The aerial version of BrahMos cruise missile with reduced weight would be fitted with deep fighter aircraft Sukhoi-30MKI to undergo the first flight trial before this year end, said CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace A. Sivathanu Pillai here on Tuesday.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of ‘BrahMos Aerospace Industry Consortium Meet’, he said one missile would be integrated with aircraft and “we will carry out flight tests initially with the missile not having propellants.” It would be a weight simulated missile.

He said live flights would be carried out next year and the Air Force version inducted into service by 2015.

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