{"id":5309,"date":"2019-12-30T18:32:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2019-12-30T18:32:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T13:02:30","slug":"brahmos-missiles-latest-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/brahmos-missiles-latest-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"BrahMos missile\u2019s latest upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out two successful tests of the latest variant of the BrahMos missile, one from the land platform and the other from air.<\/li>\n<li>BrahMos, developed through a collaboration between India and Russia, is one of the most advanced weapons in India\u2019s armoury.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The missile<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BrahMos is a cruise missile, meaning it can be guided towards a pre-determined land- or sea-based target. With a capability to attain speeds 2.8 times that of sound (Mach 2.8), BrahMos is classified as supersonic cruise missile.<\/li>\n<li>A newer version under development is aimed at flying at speeds greater than Mach 5. These are called hypersonic cruise missiles.<\/li>\n<li>Besides decreasing the reaction time of the enemy, higher speeds also substantially reduce the chances of the missile getting intercepted.<\/li>\n<li>An amalgam of the names of the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva, BrahMos is being produced by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture company set up by DRDO and Mashinostroyenia of Russia in 1998.<\/li>\n<li>The first version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was inducted into the Indian Navy in 2005, meant to be fired from INS Rajput.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The test<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>India\u2019s arsenal for long, it is continuously upgraded and updated with new hardware and software. This is what necessitates periodic tests of the missile.<\/li>\n<li>DRDO scientists said that in every such exercise of a specific variant of BrahMos, different parameters are put to test.<\/li>\n<li>Though the exact details are not disclosed, additional hardware and software systems are tested based on the inputs from the user, against more complex targets, and under different atmospheric conditions.<\/li>\n<li>The test results and observations are important for future analysis and further advancement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Air-based test<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter jets of the Indian Air Force as the base. The missile destroyed a target at sea.<\/li>\n<li>This was the third air-based test of the missile and marked the completion of the integration of BrahMos missile with the Sukhoi-30 MKI aircraft.<\/li>\n<li>The BrahMos Air-Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM), as it has since been called, has been a significant addition in IAF\u2019s air combat capability from stand-off ranges.<\/li>\n<li>Stand-off range missiles are ones that are launched at a distance sufficient to allow an attacking party to evade defensive fire expected from the target area.<\/li>\n<li>The successful testing of air-platform of BrahMos has further strengthened the tactical cruise missile triad \u2014 land, sea and air \u2014 for India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relevance: Mains: G.S paper III: Science and technology Context Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) carried out two successful tests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,42,69],"tags":[392],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-general-studies-iii-technology-economic-development-bio-diversity-environment-security-and-disaster-management","category-science-and-technology","tag-union-public-service-commission-upsc"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5310,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}