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Features
It is based on Russian P-800 Oniks cruise missile and other Russian
missile technology
The technical name of BrahMos is PJ-10
It is a ramjet supersonic cruise missile which can be launched from a
submarine, ships, aircraft and land vehicles
The major variants are:
1. Air-launched missile
2. Anti-ship missile
3. Land-attack missile
4. Surface-to-surface missile
5. Submarine-launched missile
It travels at speeds of Mach 2.8 to 3.0, which means around 3 times
faster than the speed of sound
The maximum range is 450 kilometres but the operational range is 300
kilometres
The warhead contains 200 kg of semi-armour-piercing material
It can fly at an altitude as low as 5 metres and as high as 14,000 metres
from the ground
It is equipped with stealth technology designed to make it less visible on
most of the radars
It uses the Inertial Navigation System (INS) to use against ship targets
and Global Positioning System (GPS) against land targets
It has pinpoint accuracy to hit targets with 1m circular error probability
It is also known as “Bharat ka Brahmastra”
