India tests BrahMos cruise missile (Lead)

December 2nd, 2010 - 1:46 pm ICT by IANS  

Bhubaneswar, Dec 2 (IANS) India Thursday test-fired the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos from a military base in Orissa to examine its steep diving capability, defence sources said.

The missile was tested from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea in Balasore, about 230 km from here, the sources said.

“It was a 100 percent successful launch,” he said.

India and Russia are jointly designing the BrahMos missile, which is capable of carrying conventional warheads up to 200-300 kg and has a range of 290 km. The missile is named after the Brahmaputra (India) and Moskva (Russia) rivers.

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