Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile : News, Updates and Discussions

Fact remains Pakistan has functional and deployed cruise missiles on Land and air since 2005. Nothing can defend against a formation of cruise missiles.

Who needs overly expensive, over hyped and lesser range Brah- mouse.
 
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Fact remains Pakistan has functional and deployed cruise missiles on Land and air since 2005. Nothing can defend against a formation of cruise missiles.

Who needs overly expensive, over hyped and lesser range Brah- mouse.
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I've been hearing and reading this mentality from our Western neighbour right since my childhood - unke PAAS kya hain Jo humare PAAS nahin hain.
 
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Fact remains Pakistan has functional and deployed cruise missiles on Land and air since 2005. Nothing can defend against a formation of cruise missiles.

Who needs overly expensive, over hyped and lesser range Brah- mouse.
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You should have noticed the reason why Brahmos is needed in the video itself. The aircraft was easily able to spot the cruise missile, track it quite easily. This means that the cruise missiles are very easy to be intercepted by SAMs. The speed of such cruise missile is 0.7Mach - 0.8 Mach which is much slower than what planes can achieve, forget a SAM. So, even a plane could take out a few cruise missiles using their AAM missiles. To make things even worse, cruise missiles maneuver little and make them easy targets.

Akash SAM has 2.5 Mach speed and is a RAMJET. You can be assured that all cruise missiles will be intercepted fully
 
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India successfully test-fires BrahMos with Indian made seeker

Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, which has become the preferred conventional precision-strike weapon for the armed forces, successfully tested for the first time with Indian-made seeker at Pokhran at 8.42 am.

The supersonic cruise missile that provides a major strategic deterrence against China and Pakistan can be utilised in ‘multi-mission’ roles, including precision strikes on terror camps across the LoC, against highvalue naval targets, including aircraft carriers and nuclear bunkers.

In March, an extended-range version of the missile, with a flight range of more than 400 km, was successfully test-fired.
The BrahMos ALCM weighing 2.5 tonnes is the heaviest weapon to be deployed on the Su-30 fighter aircraft, modified by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd to carry weapons.
BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and NPOM of Russia, is responsible for designing, developing and producing the missile.
 
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Brahmos test today with Indian seeker.
 
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South-East Asian nations keen to buy BrahMos




Even as the most formidable anti-ship cruise missile – the BrahMos missile – was test fired on Thursday with an indigenous seeker at a Pokhran test range in Rajasthan, several South-East Asian countries, including Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, apart from Vietnam, have evinced interest in purchasing the missile.


‘A boost to security’ ::

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took to Twitter and congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) for the successful test flight of the precision strike weapon, adding that it would be a further boost to the country’s security.

The missile demonstrated its supreme operational capability with the new indigenous seeker, incorporated in this trial run and developed jointly by BrahMos Aerospace and DRDO. With an aim to bolster the in-house manufacturing capability of the missile and to propel indigenisation, both companies have teamed up with the private sector.


Export potential ::

Sources indicate the next step for the BrahMos is exports, and added that an export order could significantly upgrade military capabilities of any country purchasing the missile, even as it would raise concerns in China.

“An export order is high on the agenda, especially since China has reportedly sold a high-tech missile tracking system to Pakistan which will arm the neighbour’s military development,” the sources said. Both Pakistan and China are also developing Air Launched Cruise Missiles.

Commenting on the geopolitical situation, the sources said: “It [geopolitical situation] is tense and recently peaked between Vietnam and Beijing when the People’s Liberation Army threatened to attack Vietnamese posts in the South China Sea if a joint venture between Hanoi and Madrid to explore oil fields was not called off. Though India has very friendly relations with Vietnam, it is one among many countries to have shown an interest in the BrahMos,” said an executive.


Testing of variants ::

Hailed as the fastest cruise missile in the world, the BrahMos can be launched from both land and ship. The submarine-launch variants are still in their testing phase. An official pointed out that “indigenisation and optimisation were key” and that over the next 4-5 years, the BrahMos missile could achieve Mach 5 speed from the current Mach 2.8 by optimising materials and engines of the missile.

Godrej Aerospace, which recently delivered the 100th set of airframe assemblies for use in the missile systems, is one of the private companies that the DRDO is relying on in its quest to increase localisation. Speaking about the Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme (IGMDP), a Defence Ministry programme for the research and development of a comprehensive range of missiles, Jamshyd Godrej, Chairman and Managing Director of Godrej & Boyce, told BusinessLine that it was “a cherished dream of former President APJ Abdul Kalam, who spoke often about the export of the BrahMos missile. After seeing the US-made Tomahawk’s success, India decided to acquire a precision attack cruise missile”.

Though India expressed interest in selling the missile to Vietnam in 2011, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia werealso keen on acquiring the missile at the Singapore Airshow held this February, and several other countries are looking at its high export potential.
 
This locally developed seeker was used in the recent brahmos test.

Russian seeker is a monopulse RF seeker

While DRDO/ECIL seeker is a dual imaging and monopulse RF seeker.

It has X band SAR based imaging capability and monopulse based homing capability.

This allows the indian seeker the ability to discriminate between targets in a highly cluttered environment both at land and sea.

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BrahMos Aerospace Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Sudhir Kumar Mishra said BrahMos, DRDO and several other private companies in India have initiated work on developing a seeker. I would like to give you the names of DataPatterns from Chennai, Alpha Design Technologies from Bangalore and ECIL. They are developing the seeker technology. DRDO is also working on this technology. Russians have agreed that if the design and development cost of the seeker by the Indian companies is low, they will also take it. First, we gave a contract to ECIL and Data Patterns for the new kind of RF SCAN seekers and they are working along with DRDO to do the design, development and testing. Under the second approach, Data Patterns and Alpha Design, both said that they can undertake development of RF Mono Pulse seeker in 'No Cost, No Commitment' model and if they develop a seeker, then I should replace the existing seeker with their seeker. These are the two models. Right now, we are using a RF Mono Pulse seeker and hence if they come up with it, we can replace the seeker today itself.

https://www.drdo.gov.in/drdo/pub/npc/2016/april/din-01Apr2016.pdf
 
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Anyone want to tell me what ship was hit?

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Well According to the Office Press release from MoD

BRAHMOS missile proves its mettle once again
India, today successfully test fired BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile from a vertical launcher fitted in a moving warship INS Ranvir off Orissa coast. The missile performed supersonic manoeuvring following the exact flight path and homed on to the decommissioned target ship INS Meen. "The launch met all mission requirements and was 100 per cent successful,'' Dr. A S Pillai, CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace, confirmed.

The missile, which has a range of 290-km and flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach, can take on a target lying anywhere in the 360-degree range of the ship. Senior Naval officials who witnessed the launch termed it a “landmark event.”

DRDO along with Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyenia has jointly designed and developed the BrahMos missiles which are capable of carrying conventional warheads up to 200 -300 kg and a range of 290-km.

The state-of-the-art Universal Vertical Launcher from which the missile was test fired has been designed, developed and patented by BrahMos Aerospace. The launcher is designed to be fitted under the warship’s deck, thereby protecting it from atmospheric conditions and imparting stealth to the weapon system.

Three 15 A Alpha-class ships being built at Mazagon Docks in Mumbai and three more Talwar class ships (known as 1135.6 class in Russia) built at Kaliningrad in Russia will be fitted with similar Vertical Launcher modules.

With the latest launch, BrahMos has once again proved its mettle to be launched from both Vertical and Inclined configurations from Naval platforms. The Army has plans to induct three regiments of BrahMos in near future to use the missile as a “precision first strike weapon.”

President Smt. Pratibha Patil and Defence Minister Shri AK Antony congratulated the missile scientists and naval officers for the successful launch of the supersonic cruise missile.

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BrahMos to attain 76% localisation in six months

BrahMos, the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile, will be achieving 75 per cent localisation in the next six months from the current 65 per cent domestic components that goes into its production, a top BrahMosAerospace official has said.

"As of today 65 per cent of the value (in BrahMos) is created in India. We started with a very low 10-12 per cent indigenisation and today we have reached 65 per cent. In another six months, we would be close to 75 per cent," BrahMos Aerospace managing director and CEO Sudhir Mishra said at the handing over ceremony of the prototype Quad launcher manufactured by L&T Defence, the defence arm of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) here over the weekend.

"Last March, we flight tested the indigenously made seeker, and booster also would be shortly tested in about two months. We would be reaching to a localization of about 85 per cent in this," he said.

The Quad launcher is designed for supersonic cruise missiles in an inclined configuration on-board our navy ships. The launcher provides superior firepower as compared to the twin cannister, deck mounted launchers and has the capability to support and launch four missiles in a single or salvo mode.

The new Quad launcher is suitable for warships which have space constraints to accommodate a vertical launch module.

"With this smart launcher, eight missiles (four on the right and four on the left side of the ship) can be launched simultaneously. Though we are yet to get the order from the navy we have started work. We have invested in technology, knowledge and future business. We are just waiting for the order," Mishra said.

He said the Quad launcher can go not only to INS Delhi class of ships but to any ship in the world where it can position the quads launcher with a bit of tweaking in the mechanism.

"With some tweaking here and there, tomorrow when we export BrahMos, which we wish happens soon, we would be integrating the launcher on foreign vessels also also," he added.

"We have been associated with the development of BrahMos programme since 2000, when as part of the composite team led by the DRDO, we engaged with the Russia and embarked on this vast project. As proven partners of all variants of naval missile launchers for BrahMos, we took up the design of the unique Quad Launcher and realised the prototype in 18 months. The Launcher underwent rigorous testing prior to receiving of production clearance. L&T will now take up the bulk production of the Quad Launchers," Jayant Patil, whole-time director (Defence) and member of L&T Board said.

As a leading industry partner of BrahMos Aerospace, L&T has been closely involved in the design, development and production of the launchers and fire control systems for naval platforms as well as development and production of key aero-structural sections of the formidable BrahMos Weapon System.
 
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India tests BrahMos cruise missile to validate ‘life-extension’ features
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

22 May 2018




India successfully test-fired the BrahMos (PJ-10) supersonic cruise missile on 21 May to validate its “life-extension” capabilities and confirm the operational “efficacy and longevity” of the weapon system, according to a statement by the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB).

The precision-strike missile, which was launched from a static mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore on India’s east coast, “flew in its designated trajectory and its key components functioned perfectly”, said the PIB.

Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the successful test-firing will lead to “huge savings” in replacement costs of the BrahMos missiles held in Indian inventories.

India tests BrahMos cruise missile to validate ‘life-extension’ features | Jane's 360



Anyone have any idea about this "life-extension" capacity of BrahMos? Replacing some parts with short lifespan and testing again? :unsure::unsure:
 
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India tests BrahMos cruise missile to validate ‘life-extension’ features
Rahul Bedi, New Delhi - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly

22 May 2018




India successfully test-fired the BrahMos (PJ-10) supersonic cruise missile on 21 May to validate its “life-extension” capabilities and confirm the operational “efficacy and longevity” of the weapon system, according to a statement by the government’s Press Information Bureau (PIB).

The precision-strike missile, which was launched from a static mobile launcher from the Integrated Test Range at Balasore on India’s east coast, “flew in its designated trajectory and its key components functioned perfectly”, said the PIB.

Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the successful test-firing will lead to “huge savings” in replacement costs of the BrahMos missiles held in Indian inventories.

India tests BrahMos cruise missile to validate ‘life-extension’ features | Jane's 360



Anyone have any idea about this "life-extension" capacity of BrahMos? Replacing some parts with short lifespan and testing again? :unsure::unsure:
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It’s mainly life of all the critical components like explosives,batteries,electronics circuits etc with a life extension of 5 years ...expiry date of each parts is now extended which will save money in long term ...in a span of 30 years previously we may have to add new explosives 3 times but now with this change in 30 years we are good with 2 time changes of new explosives .save of 1 explosives cost.
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Trial to validate life extension of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile conducted successfully

BrahMos missile has flight range of up to 290-km with supersonic speed all through the flight.
A trial to validate the life extension of Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from 10 to 15 years was conducted successfully from a test range along the Odisha coast on Monday. The new technology has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

"Every piece of ordnance has a designated life span. But we have developed means to extend the life of the BrahMos missile, it entails going through subsystems, components of missile and ensuring that the missile functions perfectly and delivers for another five years, director general of team BrahMos Sudhir Mishra told India Today.

The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher stationed at Launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur at 10 40 am, the DRDO said. "Each BrahMos costs about $4 million (approximately Rs 27-Rs 30 crore). Extending the life means that forces can spend that money on other weapon systems, Mishra said explaining the significance of the test.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted from her official account, "Smt @nsitharaman congratulates Team Brahmos and @DRDO_India for successful flight test carried out at 10 40 hrs on May 21, 2018 from ITR, Balasore to validate BrahMos missile life extension technologies developed for the first time in India.

The successful test will result in huge savings of replacement cost of missiles held in the inventory of Indian Armed Forces.

The BrahMos, whose variants can be launched from land, air and sea, is already being used by the Army and Navy. The missile was recently fired from a Su-30MKI.

The IAF plans to equip, at least, two Su-30 squadrons (each comprising 14-16 fighters) with the air-launch variant, which are 500 kg lighter than land and naval variants.

The range of the BrahMos missile had been extended from 290 km to 400 km in March, 2017. Increasing the missile's range from 400 km to further 800 km is now possible after India's induction into the Missile Technology Control Regime in June 2016, sources indicated.

The Navy was the first to introduce the BrahMos on Rajput-class destroyers in 2005.

The air launch version and the submarine launch version of the missile system are in progress. So far, the Army has placed orders for the BrahMos, which are to be deployed by three regiments. Two of them are already operational.
Trial to validate life extension of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile conducted successfully

BrahMos missile has flight range of up to 290-km with supersonic speed all through the flight.
A trial to validate the life extension of Indo-Russian joint venture BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from 10 to 15 years was conducted successfully from a test range along the Odisha coast on Monday. The new technology has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

"Every piece of ordnance has a designated life span. But we have developed means to extend the life of the BrahMos missile, it entails going through subsystems, components of missile and ensuring that the missile functions perfectly and delivers for another five years, director general of team BrahMos Sudhir Mishra told India Today.

The missile was test-fired from a mobile launcher stationed at Launch pad 3 of the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur at 10 40 am, the DRDO said. "Each BrahMos costs about $4 million (approximately Rs 27-Rs 30 crore). Extending the life means that forces can spend that money on other weapon systems, Mishra said explaining the significance of the test.

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman tweeted from her official account, "Smt @nsitharaman congratulates Team Brahmos and @DRDO_India for successful flight test carried out at 10 40 hrs on May 21, 2018 from ITR, Balasore to validate BrahMos missile life extension technologies developed for the first time in India.

The successful test will result in huge savings of replacement cost of missiles held in the inventory of Indian Armed Forces.

The BrahMos, whose variants can be launched from land, air and sea, is already being used by the Army and Navy. The missile was recently fired from a Su-30MKI.

The IAF plans to equip, at least, two Su-30 squadrons (each comprising 14-16 fighters) with the air-launch variant, which are 500 kg lighter than land and naval variants.

The range of the BrahMos missile had been extended from 290 km to 400 km in March, 2017. Increasing the missile's range from 400 km to further 800 km is now possible after India's induction into the Missile Technology Control Regime in June 2016, sources indicated.

The Navy was the first to introduce the BrahMos on Rajput-class destroyers in 2005.

The air launch version and the submarine launch version of the missile system are in progress. So far, the Army has placed orders for the BrahMos, which are to be deployed by three regiments. Two of them are already operational.
 
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15 years is very good for such a missile system. They should make new ones to at least survive 20 years.
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Yes ,I feel the lithium ion battery is one of the critical components which should alive after these many years without discharge...just guessing :unsure:
 
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