{"id":285847,"date":"2018-03-22T17:51:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=285847"},"modified":"2018-03-22T17:51:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T12:21:02","slug":"india-successfully-test-fires-supersonic-cruise-missile-brahmos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-test-fires-supersonic-cruise-missile-brahmos\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully test fires supersonic cruise missile BrahMos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/brahmos-1-620x413.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285848 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/brahmos-1-620x413-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"brahmos-1-620x413\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" data-id=\"285848\" \/><\/a>In one of the major breakthrough moments, India successfully test fired the world&#8217;s fastest and most formidable anti-ship cruise missile- BrahMos. The missile was fired with an indigenous seeker at a Pokhran test range in Rajasthan on March 22. \u00a0BrahMos hit its designated target with pinpoint accuracy at 8:42 this morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman congratulated the Defence Research and Development Organisation for the successful fight test<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Formidable Supersonic Cruise Missile BrahMos was successfully flight tested at 8:42 AM today at Pokhran test range, Rajasthan. The precision strike weapon with Indian-made seeker flew in its designated trajectory and hit the target with pin-point accuracy,&#8221; tweeted the defence ministry.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Formidable Supersonic Cruise Missile <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BrahMos?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BrahMos<\/a> was successfully flight tested at 8:42 AM today at Pokhran test range, Rajasthan.<br \/>\nThe precision strike weapon with Indian-made seeker flew in its designated trajectory and hit the target with pin-point accuracy.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PIB_India?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PIB_India<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MIB_India?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MIB_India<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u2014 Raksha Mantri (@DefenceMinIndia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefenceMinIndia\/status\/976693553198907392?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In one of the major breakthrough moments, India successfully test fired the world&#8217;s fastest and most formidable anti-ship cruise missile- BrahMos. The missile was fired with an indigenous seeker at a Pokhran test range in Rajasthan on March 22. \u00a0BrahMos hit its designated target with pinpoint accuracy at 8:42 this morning. Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":285848,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,39],"tags":[973,974,975,976],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285847"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}