Cruise missile - A great inspiration!!

Time for some true inspiration - lock your seat belt, raise the windows and cruise through this road of BrahMos highway.
BrahMos (= Brahmaputra + Moskova) is a success story out of the Indo-Russian tie up on building a cruise missile. Slated to be the world's fastest cruise missile(as of today!!), is a highly sophiscated addition to our defence capabilities.
what we see in the image is a Tatra truck with the BrahMos missiles. It is launched at an angle and then the missile turns horizontal moves up in the air and travels the considerable part of the journey at this height(so that the fuel efficiency is high). As the target comes nearer the missiles climbs down so that the enemies' radar finds it diffcult to trace or atleast by the time they do it are left with not enough time to react. Same is the logic with the fighter planes - they also travel at a lesser altitude to avoid radar detection. But with the sleeker design of the missiles, detection by radar becomes a little more difficult when compared to the fighter planes.
A test was conducted just a week back at Chandipur-on-sea range and what was exciting about this was that the army had sought a complicated manoeuvoring at the end. The test was successful much to the delight of the people who put in their weight behind this effort. Some truely interesting facts:
Missile range: 290km
Payload: 200 to 300kg warhead
Speed: 3 mach (3 times speed of sound!!)
Notable among the team is Dr Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of the venture and his team who have spared no effort in making this a success ( including offering prayers to their favourite deities before the launch!!) And if you by some chance wonder who named the missile i can only give you a hint - he is the supreme commander!!
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