The Indian Navy on Sunday successfully test fired the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a warship off the Goa coast, Indian media quoting officials as saying. The missile is capable of carrying a conventional warhead of 300kgs, the state-run news agency said. “The cruise missile was test-fired from guided missile frigate of Indian Naval Staff (INS) Teg – the Indian Navy’s latest induction from Russia – off the coast of Goa early morning,” sources said. They said the missile performing high-level manoeuvres successfully hit the target ship which was still on fire. The INS Teg, which has been built at the Yantar shipyard in Russia, had fired the missile successfully during pre-induction trials in Russia last year. The two remaining warships of the project, INS Tarkah and INS Trikand, will also be armed with the lethal missile in vertical launch mode. The two-stage missile, the first one being solid and the second one ramjet liquid propellant, has already been inducted into the army and navy, and the Air Force version is in final stage of trial, a defence official said.
