Land-based BRAHMOS Testing in full swing: Pillai

VISAKHAPATNAM: BRAHMOS Aerospace, a Indo-Russian joint venture was now extensively testing the Army version of surface-to-surface missiles.

Talking to newspersons here, BRAHMOS CEO and MD Sivathanu Pillai said the company is now engaged in testing and manufacturing BRAHMOS missiles that can be deployed in Indian Army. The deployment was likely to take place soon, he said.

He said the task of induction of BRAHMOS into the Indian Army had been challenging as it called for various types of war heads compared to those launched from the sea. There was a sea of difference in guidance system and platform of the two versions of the missile.

“The Army version calls for different types of warheads to be used on different targets like Army concentration, hard targets like buildings or expansive targets like an air base,” he said.

The induction of anti-ship version of BRAHMOS developed for the Indian Navy had already begin and several naval warships were already carrying such missiles.