IAF, Russia testing Brahmos..

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Industry Outlook
India/Russia Test Brahmos Cruise Missile
Aviation Week & Space Technology
06/21/2004, page 19

Edited by Patricia J. Parmalee

India/Russia Test Team

India has carried out final assembly and firing of a Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, jointly developed with Russia and based on the NPO Mashinostroyenia 3M-55 Onyx. This was the seventh Brahmos test, but is believed to have been the first missile to have actually been asembled in India. The firing was from a mobile launcher, despite poor weather, from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur, in the eastern state Orissa. The 8-meter (26-ft.), 3-ton missile has a range of up to 290 km. (180 mi.). The propulsion of the two-stage vehicle consists of a solid propellant booster and liquid propellant Ramjet system.

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