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BrahMos Missile Successfully Test-Fired From Odisha’s Chandipur

The BrahMos missile is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile capable of being launched from land, air and water.

A Tejas LCA MK1A Trainer light combat aircraft armed with BrahMos missiles sits on display during the Aero India Air Show at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Karen Dias/Bloomberg)
A Tejas LCA MK1A Trainer light combat aircraft armed with BrahMos missiles sits on display during the Aero India Air Show at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru, India. (Photographer: Karen Dias/Bloomberg)

Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test-fired from a base in Odisha's Chandipur on Tuesday, Defence sources said.

The land-attack version of the missile was test-fired from a mobile autonomous launcher at Launch Complex-3 of the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near Chandipur at around 8.30 am, they said.

The trial of the surface-to-surface missile was successful, meeting all the parameters, according to a source in the Defence Research and Development Organisation.

The BrahMos missile is a medium-range ramjet supersonic cruise missile capable of being launched from submarines, ships, fighter jets or land.