Indian Air Force test fires land attack version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile

Q.  IAF has successfully test fired which land attack version’s supersonic cruise missile?
- Published on 30 May 16

a. BrahMos
b. Prithvi
c. Arihant
d. Nag

ANSWER: BrahMos
 
Indian Air Force on May 27, 2016 successfully test-fired the land attack version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which was test fired from the defence base in the western sector in Pokhran in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan
  • Flight conducted met its mission parameters in a copybook manner and the weapon hit and annihilated the designated target
  • Flight conducted met its mission parameters in a copybook manner and the weapon hit and annihilated the designated target
  • It was a maiden air launch from the fighter aircraft
  • The Indian Army and Navy have inducted the BrahMos missile system
  • Accuracy in mountain warfare mode of the missile system was re-established in an exercise conducted by Indian Army in the eastern sector in 2015
  • The test was conducted in April 2016
  • BrahMos is the fastest missile in the world which has a flight range of close to 290 kilometres and caries a conventional warhead of 200 kg to 300 kg

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