India Successfully Test-Fires BrahMos Missile From INS Chennai

India successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on Sunday from the Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai.

The missile was fired from INS Chennai, a stealth destroyer. It missile completed high-level and extremely complex maneuvers and hit the target successfully with high accuracy.

“BRAHMOS, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired today on 18^th October 2020 from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea. The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy,” the DRDO said in a tweet.

BrahMos will be highly useful in war terms as being an invisible ally and could engage naval surface targets at long ranges that make it a mortal weapon to Indian navy.

Also, it is to be mentioned here that the BrahMos is made by a collaborative effort of India and Russia.

India, in the last few weeks, has test-fired a number of missiles including a new version of the surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos and anti-radiation missile Rudram-1.