On Sunday, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will inaugurate the new BrahMos Aerospace Integration and Testing Facility, located in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. The opening of such a state-of-the-art centre is a landmark for India’s Defense capabilities, as a first for India, which will be the country’s Defense Technologies & Test Centre (DTTC) in the state. With an area of about 22 acres, DTTC is crucial to the Uttar Pradesh Defence Industrial Corridor (UP DIC) for driving defence & aerospace manufacturing in India.
The ceremony is after recent increases in military tensions between India and Pakistan that were resolved by a ceasefire that was mutually agreed upon on Saturday. Although the ceasefire stopped fisticuffs on land, in the air, and at sea, the Jammu boundary remains on high alert because it has been a problem-prone area.
Such a great increase in the area of security issues in that period put India’s BrahMos missile system under the international spotlight. Pakistan reported some damage to a BrahMos missile, but Indian defence authorities denied the reports as false. Designed collaboratively by BrahMos Aerospace, a partner venture between Russia and India, the BrahMos missile is lauded for being a supersonic missile with excellent accuracy. The BrahMos missile uses a dual-stage rocket engine; a solid-fuel booster drives it to supersonic speeds when launched, only to detach and allow the second stage to perform progressively down its course.
Proud with a strike range of approximately 290 kilometres and a top speed of Mach 2.8 (3 times the speed of sound), BrahMos is internationally acclaimed as one of the fastest supersonic cruise missiles. Its capability to launch from land, sea, and air makes BrahMos the bedrock of India’s central tactical program missile constellation. The ‘fire-and-forget’ principle means that the missile does not receive any supplementary guidance after leaving the gun.
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