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The BrahMos (also designated as PJ-10) [14] is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, fighter aircraft or TEL. [15] It is a joint venture between the Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroyeniya, who together have formed BrahMos Aerospace. [16]
1.2 Mt Inactive 1961 No Silo 30 Minuteman II: US Boeing 10,200 km 33,000 kg 1.2 Mt Inactive 1965 No Silo 31 LGM-118 Peacekeeper: US Boeing, Martin Marietta, TRW, 14,000 km 96,750 kg 10x 300 kt Inactive 1983 Yes Silo 120 m 32 Midgetman: US Martin Marietta: 11,000 km 13,600 kg 475 kt Inactive 1992 No Small ICBM Hard Mobile Launcher [5] 90 m 33 ...
The BrahMos-II is expected to have a range of 1,500 kilometres (930 mi; 810 nmi) [1] and a speed of Mach 8. During the cruise stage of flight, the missile will be propelled by a scramjet airbreathing jet engine. [2] [3] Other details, including production cost and physical dimensions of the missile, are yet to be published. [4] [5] [1]
The under development missile was first mentioned in the 2023 Year End Review of the Ministry of Defence, and was named Long Range – Anti Ship Missile (LRAShM). [22] In 2024, it was reported that the LRAShM and its land-based variant would form a part of the proposed Integrated Rocket Force along with Pralay, BrahMos, Nirbhay and Pinaka MBRL.
In Service [7] Prithvi-III (SS-350) 350 to 600 km (220 to 370 mi) 2004 In Service [8] Dhanush: surface-to-surface Anti-ship ballistic missile: 350 to 750 km (220 to 470 mi) 2018 In Service [9] Agni: Agni-I: Surface-to-surface MRBM: Ring laser gyro INS infrared homing active radar homing: 1,200 km (750 mi) Mach 24 Conventional or Nuclear High ...
The Air Force's New Nuclear Missile System Will Now Cost $131.5 Billion. Varad Raigaonkar. ... With LGM-30 Minuteman III—the U.S.'s lone ICBM in service—approaching the end of its life cycle ...
In service BrahMos-A Supersonic air-launched land-attack / anti-ship cruise missile 400 km (250 mi) 2020 In service Submarine-launched BrahMos Supersonic submarine-launched anti-ship / land-attack cruise missile 290 km (180 mi) 2013 In service BrahMos ER Multi-platform multirole supersonic cruise missile 600 km (370 mi) 2022 In service BrahMos NG
Founder CEO Sivathanu Pillai introducing a model missile to 13th Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh at BrahMos Complex in New Delhi. BrahMos Aerospace stall at Defexpo 2016 in New Delhi . After the Gulf War of the 1990s, there was a feeling that it was necessary to have a cruise missile system in India.