BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile

🟣BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile 

✍BrahMos, deployed by the Navy on its warships first in 2005, has the capability to hit sea-based targets beyond radar horizon.

✍Capable of being launched from land, sea, sub-sea and air against surface- and sea-based targets

✍The missiles, fired at a speed of 2.8 Mach or nearly three times the speed of sound, significantly increase the capability of the ships in engaging long-range targets.

✍The name BrahMos is  formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.

✍It is the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile currently in operation.

✍BrahMos missiles are designed and developed by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture company set up by Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Mashinostroyenia of Russia