Indian Army received Second Regiment of Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missiles

The Indian Army received the second regiment of indigenously produced Brahmos supersonic cruise missiles on 9 november 2011. BrahMos was handed to Lt. Gen. Vinod Nayanar, Director General, Artillery by Union Minister of State for Defence, M. M. Pallam Raju.

The second BrahMos cruise missile regiment of ground systems comes with mobile launchers, command post, replenishment systems, fire-control systems with sophisticated electronic hardware and software and multiple communication systems.

The Army already had guns for near- range and Smerch rockets for range of 75 km. BrahMos was the only system that gave tremendous fire power capability to the armed forces for targets beyond 75 km and as deep as 300 km.
The BrahMos has supersonic speed (Mach 2.8) all through its 290-km range, precision of near-zero circular error probability and devastating power — nine times more kinetic energy than sub-sonic cruise missiles. BrahMos world leader in cruise missile technology and the preferred first strike weapon of the armed forces.

These missiles is to be deployed along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) facing China in the next two to three years thereby adding muscle to Army’s operational preparedness.

One regiment has four to six mobile launchers with self-contained computerised command posts and one launcher has a battery of four to five Brahmos missiles having a speed of Mach 2.8 and can hit a target at a range of 300 km.  The Army operationalised the first regiment in 2007.

Jointly designed by India and Russia, BrahMos is the first venture of its kind between the two countries in the field of highly sophisticated defence industry. This supersonic missile, developed by from Brahmos Aerospace, is rated as one of the best in the world and can be used for precision hits without causing collateral damage.

The formation of a missile industry complex with a network of public and private sector industries who tirelessly work for producing BrahMos missiles for meeting the demand of all the three services is of utmost importance.