{"id":327064,"date":"2020-09-30T07:21:31","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T07:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327064"},"modified":"2020-09-30T10:22:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T10:22:34","slug":"india-successfully-test-fires-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/india-successfully-test-fires-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"India successfully test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-327067 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/brahmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/brahmos.jpg 387w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/brahmos-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/09\/brahmos-314x420.jpg 314w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/>India on Wednesday successfully test-fired an extended range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BrahMos surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile featuring indigenous Booster and Airframe Section along with many other \u2018Made in India\u2019 sub-systems was successfully flight tested for designated range from ITR, Balasore in Odisha. It is one more major step in enhancing the indigenous content.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The BrahMos Land-Attack Cruise Missile (LACM) was cruising at a top speed of Mach 2.8.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Defence Minister Rajnath Singh congratulated all the personnel of DRDO and team BrahMos for the spectacular mission. Dr G Satheesh Reddy, Secretary DD R&amp;D and Chairman DRDO congratulated the scientific community and industry for this feat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to Team @DRDO_India and @BrahMosMissile for the successful flight testing of #BRAHMOS Supersonic Cruise Missile with Indigenous Booster and Air Frame for designated range. This achievement will give a big boost to India\u2019s #AtmaNirbharBharat Pledge,\u201d Rajnath tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Wednesday successfully test-fired an extended range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile. BrahMos surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile featuring indigenous Booster and Airframe Section along with many other \u2018Made in India\u2019 sub-systems was successfully flight tested for designated range from ITR, Balasore in Odisha. It is one more major step in enhancing the indigenous content. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2089,2916,2014],"tags":[13520,446,2174],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327064"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327068,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327064\/revisions\/327068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}