Brahmos, a supersonic cruise missile developed under an Indo-Russian joint venture project, has been successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range(ITR) at Chandipur-on-sea, about 15 km from Balasore, Orissa.
The army version of the missile, with a range of 290 km, operating on the principle of fire, with a capacity of carrying a conventional warhead upto 200 kg, was testfired from the ITR launch complex at 12:15 PM.
The nine-metre-long missile could be carried aboard a ship or a sebmarine with some modification. The missile can fly upto a height of 14 km at twice the speed of sound when fired from a ship.
It was charged by a solid propellant and has a preset trajectory and could change its course to strike 20 km from the target.
ITR sources said this would the 9th BrahMos missile test fired. The last BrahMos was test fired on 30th November, 2005
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