{"id":30101,"date":"2025-02-14T02:10:03","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30101"},"modified":"2025-04-09T15:15:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:45:49","slug":"brahmos-ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/brahmos-ng\/","title":{"rendered":"BrahMos NG"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>BrahMos NG Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The next-generation BrahMos missile, known as BrahMos NG, is approaching its first flight test, slated for 2026, with production set to commence in 2027-28.<\/p>\n<h2>About BrahMos NG<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>advanced supersonic cruise missile<\/strong>\u00a0developed jointly by India-Russia.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a sleeker missile with the same capabilities as its predecessor.<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>lighter, smaller and compact<\/strong>, due to its reduced size, the next-generation missile system will be able to fit on a wider array of platforms.<\/li>\n<li>These include the Russian-origin\u00a0<strong>Sukhoi-30MKI fighter<\/strong>\u00a0aircraft and India\u2019s indigenously developed\u00a0<strong>Light Combat Aircraft<\/strong>\u00a0(LCA) Tejas, both of which will now be capable of deploying the BrahMos NG.<\/li>\n<li>It weighs\u00a0<strong>1.6 tonnes and is 6 metres<\/strong>\u00a0long while the older version weighed 3 tonnes and was 9 metres long.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Range and Speed:<\/strong>\u00a0The missile has a\u00a0<strong>range of 290 km<\/strong>\u00a0and a speed of up to\u00a0<strong>3.5 Mach.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will have a\u00a0<strong>lesser radar cross-section<\/strong>\u00a0in comparison to the previous version.<\/li>\n<li>It will have a homemade seeker with\u00a0<strong>an AESA radar which will\u00a0<\/strong>enhance its precision and stealth capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>BrahMos NG FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the speed of BrahMos Ng?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a03.5 Mach<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the BrahMos missile UPSC?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0BrahMos is a long-range nuclear-capable supersonic cruise missile system. It possesses the capability to be deployed from several platforms, including air, sea, and land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3:\u00a0<\/strong>Who is the father of BrahMos?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. A. Sivathanu Pillai<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newindianexpress.com\/nation\/2025\/Feb\/12\/next-generation-brahmos-missile-to-make-first-flight-run-in-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NIE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BrahMos NG is an advanced supersonic cruise missile developed jointly by India-Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30101","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}