{"id":5284,"date":"2022-12-30T04:47:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T23:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5284"},"modified":"2025-03-27T05:24:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T23:54:06","slug":"extended-range-version-of-brahmos-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/extended-range-version-of-brahmos-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Extended Range Version of Brahmos missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The missile achieved the desired mission objectives in the Bay of Bengal region. With this, IAF has achieved a significant capability boost to carry out precision strikes from SU-30MKI aircraft <strong>against land or sea targets<\/strong> over very long ranges.<\/li>\n<li>The capability of <strong>striking the targets<\/strong> located at <strong>around 350 kilometres<\/strong> compared to around 290 kilometres for the initial version.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The first test<\/strong> of the initial version of the Brahmos Air Launched Cruise Missile was <strong>conducted in 2017.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>What are Brahmos missiles?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Brahmos is a joint venture between the <strong>Defence Research and Development Organisation of India and NPOM of Russia. <\/strong>It is named after the rivers <strong>Brahmaputra and Moskva.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>two-stage,<\/strong> solid propellant engine in the first stage and a liquid ramjet in the second.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It can be launched from land, air, and sea<\/strong> and multi a capability missile with pinpoint accuracy that works both day and night irrespective of the weather conditions.<\/li>\n<li>It operates on the <strong>&#8220;Fire and Forget&#8221; principle<\/strong> it does not require further guidance after launch.<\/li>\n<li>These are called <strong>\u201cstandoff range weapons\u201d,<\/strong> fired from a range far enough to allow the attacker to evade defensive counter-fire.<\/li>\n<li>Brahmos is one of the fastest cruise missiles currently operationally deployed with the speed of Mach 2.8, which is nearly 3 times more than the speed of sound.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) Why BrahMos is the best missile in the world?<\/h3>\n<p>Compared to existing state-of-the-art subsonic cruise missiles, BRAHMOS has three times more velocity, 2.5 to 3 times more flight range, 3 to 4 times higher target detection range and more than nine times of kinetic energy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/indian-air-force-successfully-test-fires-extended-range-version-of-the-brahmos-air-launched-missile-8350896\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>IAF successfully test fires extended range version of the Brahmos missile from SU-30MKI fighter<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAF achieves strategic boost with extended range version of Brahmos to dominate future battlefields<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5284","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\/5284","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=5284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}