Leading Manufacturing Companies – Brahmos Aerospace

BrahMos Aerospace, the makers of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which completes 20 years on February 12, has many firsts to its credit. It is the first successful JV between India and Russia; it has met manufacturing and delivery timelines; it has been accepted by all three defence services — the Navy, Army and the Air Force; with its supersonic speed of 2.8 Mach, it is difficult to intercept; given its speed, weight and accuracy, its enormous kinetic energy would blow depth targets to smithereens, making it a strategic weapon with conventional warheads; with India joining the Missile Technology Control Regime club, its advertised range of 290km can be increased to 600km and so on.

BrahMos Aerospace is currently working on the development of yet another superior variant of BrahMos LACM which would have a “near vertical dive and surround attack” capability. The new BrahMos Block-IV, as it would be called,will have the power to strike off an enemy position from top, at an angle of 900, thus rendering immense flexibility to the Army’s combat potentiality.
India is set extend the range of BrahMos cruise missile to 800 kilometres and test the new variant by the end of this year. Countries which are not members of the MTCR are not allowed to purchase or jointly produce missiles with a range of more than 300km with countries inside the club.
The effort to arm IAF’s upgraded MiG-29s, Rafale jets and Indian Navy’s MiG-29Ks are also underway.