{"id":327735,"date":"2020-10-18T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-18T10:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327735"},"modified":"2020-10-18T10:12:38","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T10:12:38","slug":"brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile-successfully-test-fired-from-stealth-destroyer-ins-chennai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile-successfully-test-fired-from-stealth-destroyer-ins-chennai\/","title":{"rendered":"BrahMos supersonic cruise missile successfully test-fired from stealth destroyer INS Chennai"},"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=\"size-full wp-image-327736 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/brahmos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/brahmos.jpg 575w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/10\/brahmos-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/>India on Sunday successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy\u2019s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hitting a target in the Arabian Sea, the missile successfully engaged it with pinpoint accuracy after performing high-level and extremely complex manoeuvres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cBRAHMOS, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired today on 18th October 2020 from Indian Navy\u2019s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai, hitting a target in the Arabian Sea. The missile hit the target successfully with pin-point accuracy,\u201d DRDO tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BrahMos as \u2018prime strike weapon\u2019 will ensure the warship\u2019s invincibility by engaging naval surface targets at long ranges, thus making the destroyer another lethal platform of Indian Navy. The highly versatile BrahMos has been jointly designed, developed and produced by India and Russia.<\/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 DRDO, BrahMos and Indian Navy for the successful launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Secretary DDR&amp;D &amp; Chairman DRDO Dr G Satheesh Reddy, congratulated the scientists and all personnel of DRDO, BrahMos, Indian Navy and industry for the successful feat. He stated that BrahMos missiles will add to the capabilities of Indian Armed Forces in many ways.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India on Sunday successfully test-fired BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from Indian Navy\u2019s indigenously-built stealth destroyer INS Chennai. Hitting a target in the Arabian Sea, the missile successfully engaged it with pinpoint accuracy after performing high-level and extremely complex manoeuvres. \u201cBRAHMOS, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test fired today on 18th October 2020 from Indian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":327736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2072,2014,2534],"tags":[13520,446],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327735"}],"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=327735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327737,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327735\/revisions\/327737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/327736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}