Brahmos, the Indo-Russian joint supersonic cruise missile, was successfully test fired on Sunday from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, 15-km from Balasore (Orissa)
The eight metre-long missile, weighing about three tonnes, was fired from a mobile launcher, said a news report received here quoting defence sources.
It was jointly developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Russian Organisation, NPO Mashinostroyenia, the surface-to-surface version of the eight metre-long missile weighing three tones can hit a target at a distance up to 290-km, said the report.
Brahmos is the first and only supersonic cruise missile that uses liquid Ramjet technology, said the report, adding the first demonstration flight of Brahmos had taken place in a vertical configuration on June 12, 2001 from ITR.
Primarily, an anti-ship missile which could be modified for operations in air and on land, Brahmos has a speed of 2.8 Mach and can carry a conventional warhead weighing 300-kg.
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