India on Monday successfully test-fired a land version of the BrahMos supersonic missile from the Chandipur coast here. The test met all flight parameters, said a source in the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).
According to sources, though the missile is developed by India with collaboration with Russia but in today’s test indigenous booster as well as warhead were used and tested for the first occasion.
“One can say about 70 per cent of the missile components now are indigenous. This will be cost-effective as compared to importing them from outside. The missile, with a strike range of 290 km, can be fired from land as well as sea-based platforms,” added the sources.
On March 11, 2017 the first extended version of the missile, which had strike range of 450 km, was successfully tested.