Successfully struck the ship: India tested the supersonic rocket Brahmos increased range
"The Air Force has successfully launched Brahmos Air Launched increased range," in particular, informed the command. As the test was specified in the Bay of Bengal. Launched from the Su-30mki fighter, the supersonic winged rocket with a range of 450 km struck the target.
"Increased Brahmos flight range, combined with the high characteristics of the Su-30mki, gives the strategic advantage of the Air Force and allows them to have a fighting advantage in future fighting,"-reports the words of the Times of India's military-air forces command. According to journalists, the test of a rocket, which flies three times faster than the speed of sound, became the second in the score after its modernization from the initial 290-kilometer range.
Brahmos (also known as PJ-10) is a supersonic anti-ship missile, developed jointly by the Russian Military-Industrial Corporation "NGO Mechanical Engineering" and the organization of defense research and development (DRDO) of the Ministry of Defense of India. The Soviet supersonic anti-ship winged rocket P-800 "Onyx" is taken as the basis. Recall on December 9, the US tested a new AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile (Air-Launched Rapid Respense Weapon).
The rocket launch was carried out by the bomber B-52H StratoFortress. In October, Turkey conducted successful tests of Tayfun ballistic missile, developed by Roketsan. Flight took 458 seconds at a distance of 561 km. It is the first small range ballistic, developed by Turkey. After that, the Russian political scientist and former State Duma MP Semen Baghdasarov in the program of Vladimir Solovyov stated that Russia should review its relations with Turkey, from which the threat was allegedly.