India successfully test fires surface-to-surface BrahMos missile

India successfully test-fired another surface to surface BrahMos
missile from Andman &Nicobar Islands on Wednesday, ANI reported.

“The test firing of the surface-to-surface variant of the
BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with a strike range of 300 Km was successful.
The Indian Air Force has both land and air-launched versions of the missile,”
ANI tweeted on Wednesday.

A similar test was conducted on Tuesday, in which a BrahMos
was test fired successfully travelling at a speed of 2.8 mach, which is about
three-times the speed of sound.

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BrahMos is developed jointly by NPOM of Russia and India’s
DRDO. It exists in variants that can be fired from submarine, ships, air, and
surface.  

“In the last two-and-half months, India has test fired a
number of missiles including an anti-radiation missile named Rudram-1 which is
planned to be inducted into service by 2022,” The Hindu reported.

Similarly on October 18, a BrahMos missile was successfully
test fired from an indigenously-built stealth destroyer of the Indian Navy in
the Arabian Sea.

India has deployed a number of BrahMos at strategic locations
along Line of Actual Control in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Air Force
has also equipped a number of its Sukhois with the BrahMos missile.