[sukhoi-30mki]

Bit of hyperventilation in the article. The Brahmos is not the world’s first supersonic sub-launched CM. The Russians had the SS-N-19 Shipwreck for almost 30+ years now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-700_Granit

[doorgunner69]

I believe the SS-N-22 Sunburn has been around for over 20 years as well.

I know for a fact that the Sunburn scared hell out of the Navy in the mid-80s.

[spetznaz]

I thought the Shipwreck was an anti-ship cruise missile, while the BrahMos can be used as a cruise missile targeted at land targets too? I thought that's the reason they are making the distinction that the BrahMos is the world's first supersonic submarine launched cruise missile, even though supersonic submarine launched anti-ship cruise missiles have existed for years. So have supersonic cruise missiles (e.g. various families of supersonic air-launched cruise missiles), but I cannot recall a supersonic submarine-launched cruise missile. I could be mistaken, but I thought the anti-ship cruise missile vs cruise missile was the main difference, and if that's the case, then the BrahMos is the world's first supersonic submarine launched cruise missile.

Again, I may have understood the article incorrectly, but that's what I gleaned from it.

I also know in the past there is one case (by India btw) where they used an anti-ship cruise missile (the Styx) as a jury-rigged land-attack cruise missile (when the Styx was used against Pakistani naval base, taking out facilities that directly or indirectly took out most of the Pakistani navy during that war). Thus, I am sure an (for example) Oniks could be jury-rigged into a land-attack cruise missile. But I still think, maybe incorrectly, that the BrahMos is the first submarine-launched, supersonic, cruise missile.