This facility is a key part of the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor.
About BrahMos Missile
- It is a long range supersonic cruise missile system.
- Cruise missiles are unmanned vehicles that are propelled by jet engines.
- Supersonic missile have a range of 2-3 Mach.
- It is developed by BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture between DRDO and NPOM of Russia.
- It is named after Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers.
- Key Features
- Operates on 'Fire and Forget Principle', adopting varieties of flights on its way to the target.
- Two-stage missile
- Stage one: Based on the solid propellant booster engine.
- Stage two: The liquid ramjet engine boosts the missile’s speed to about Mach 3 in cruise phase.
- Range: 290 km
- Versions: BrahMos NG missile, a lighter, smaller and lethal version of the BrahMos missile.
- Others: stealth technology (difficult to detect by radar), Pin point accuracy, etc.
- Advantages
- Universal Missile (can be launch from land, sea and air)
- Export Potential (E.g. India has delivered BrahMos to the Philippines in 2024)
- Other: Ensuring lower dispersion of targets, quicker engagement time etc.
Defence Industrial Corridors of India
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