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The missile can reach the speed of 2.8 times that of sound. The launch by the Army comes over a month after the Naval version of the BrahMos missile was successfully test-fired from INS Chennai. The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was launched in a top-attack configuration on November 24 The Indian Army Tuesday successfully launched its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile in a ‘top-attack’ configuration, hitting a target in the Bay of Bengal, in what is said to be the first in a series of tests of the missile system. The launch by the Army comes over a month after the  Naval version of the BrahMos missile was successfully test-fired  from the indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea. More tests of supersonic cruise missile are expected by the Navy and the Indian Air Force in the coming days. Indian Army successfully launched its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile on 24 Nov 2020 in a top-attack configuratio...

On Saturday, the festival of Diwali was widely celebrated in India and many other parts of the world. While the controversies over the use of firecrackers and pollution remained the highlight over social media, a contrasting battle raged on at the Line of Actual Control which led to heavy casualties on both sides. Indian Navy releases a video titled 'Fireworks At Sea' on Diwali eve (@indiannavy) The bunker-busting videos by the Indian Army along the LOC emerged on social media, but it was the Indian Navy which drew a lot of attention. In the morning hours of the day, the Indian Navy released a video named “Fireworks at Sea”, flaunting the service’s way of celebrating Diwali with the customary firecrackers. The video showcased the firing of various weapons platforms, including naval guns, anti-submarine rockets, torpedoes, surface-to-surface missiles, and the service’s venerable MiG-29Ks- along with precise cinematic shots of various warships. The most notable systems shown firi...

(Representative image) India on Sunday successfully test fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy’s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai today hitting a target in the Arabian Sea. It hit the target successfully with pinpoint accuracy after performing high-level & extremely complex manoeuvres. The test comes in the wake of BrahMos missile having a range of around 400 km being tested from an integrated test range at Balasore in Odisha on September 30. "BrahMos as ‘prime strike weapon' will ensure the warship's invincibility by engaging naval surface targets at long ranges, thus making the destroyer another lethal platform of Indian Navy," the defence ministry said in a statement. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), the BrahMos Aerospace and the Indian Navy for the "successful" test-firing of the missile. DRDO Chairman G Satheesh Reddy too congratulated the scie...