The Indian Army has so far placed orders for three regiments of the supersonic cruise missile and with today's test firing, two of them have been inducted operationally.
The Indian Army on Sunday successfully test fired the 290km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile at the Pokharan range in Jaisalmer to operationalise the second regiment of the weapon system in service.
"In conformity and pursuit of operational and strategic surface to surface missile capability development, the second BrahMos unit of Indian Army has been operationalised. The Indian Army unit successfully launched BrahMos missile and destroyed the preselected target in the field firing ranges in Rajasthan," an army spokesperson said in Jaisalmer.
The test was witnessed by senior Army officials including Vice-Chief Lt Gen Shri Krishna Singh and Director General Military Operations (DGMO) Lt Gen AK Chaudhary.
The army has so far placed orders for three regiments of the supersonic cruise missile and with today's test firing, two of them have been inducted operationally.
The Defence Ministry has also given a go ahead to the army to induct a third regiment for being deployed in Arunachal Pradesh along the China border.
One regiment of the 290km range BrahMos consists around 65 missiles, five mobile autonomous launchers on Tatra vehicles and two mobile command posts, among other equipment.
BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian Joint venture company headed by A Sivathanu Pillai, is also working to develop the submarine launched, air launched and a hyper-sonic version of the missile in the near future.
It has already been inducted into the Navy and is deployed on almost all the front line surface warships of the maritime force.
Meanwhile, a fire broke out in a field in the Pokran firing range away from the area where the missile was test-fired.
"The fire broke out in the firing range near Naachna area which is away from Pokran town. It is suspected that heavy winds caused the fire and spreaded in the area. It has no connection with any activity in the firing range," SP, Jaisalmer, Mamta Bishnoi said.
No loss was reported in the incident, she said.
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