India successfully test-fires surface to surface BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in Andaman and Nicobar

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India has successfully test-fired surface to surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos in Andaman and Nicobar.

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About BrahMos Missile:

BrahMos - the name represents the fury of Brahmaputra and the grace of Moskva Rivers.
The BrahMos is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarine, ships, aircraft, or land.
It is the fastest supersonic cruise missile in the world.
It is based on the Russian P-800 Oniks cruise missile and other similar sea-skimming Russian cruise missile technology.
It is a joint venture between the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroyeniya and India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) who together have formed BrahMos Aerospace.
Stealth technology and guidance system with advanced embedded software provides the missile with special features.
The missile has a flight range of up to 290-km with supersonic speed all through the flight, leading to shorter flight time, consequently ensuring lower dispersion of targets, quicker engagement time and non-interception by any known weapon system in the world.
It operates on ‘Fire and Forget Principle’, adopting varieties of flights on its way to the target.