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India ready to export cruise missiles: official (AFP) – 1 day ago NEW DELHI — India, which has built a supersonic cruise missile jointly with Russia, is holding talks with at least four countries to sell the weapons system, a senior Indian official said on Tuesday. BrahMos Aerospace, a 50:50 tie-up with Russia, needs the approval of both governments to export the weapon which its makers claim is the world's fastest cruise missile, each costing up to three million dollars. "We are in the process of getting the necessary permission (for sales)," A. Sivathanu Pillai, chief executive officer of BrahMos...

An installation test flight of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is scheduled to take place this year in the Baltic Sea from a stealth frigate being built for the Indian Navy at Kaliningrad in Russia, A. Sivathanu Pillai, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, BrahMos Aerospace Limited, said on Tuesday. The missile’s vertical launcher and fire control system, made in India, was transported to Kaliningrad and fitted into the stealth frigate, a Talwar-class ship. Dr. Pillai disclosed this when Russian National Security Advisor Nikolai Patroshev, along with Ambassador Alexander Kadakin, visited the BrahMos Complex in New Delhi. The BrahMos missile...

India has introduced into its Armed forces the new BrahMos missile, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company, Sivathanu Pillai, told RIA Novosti news agency today. Established in 1998, BrahMos Aerospace, a joint Indian-Russian venture, produces and markets BrahMos supersonic missiles. The sea-based and land-based versions have been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian Army and Navy. Earlier in the day, Russia's security chief, Nikolai Patrushev, visited the BrahMos plant in Hyderabad, where the new missile is produced. The missile, known as BrahMos Block-2, has a top speed of over Mach 5, which makes it virtually impossible...

The country's prestigious 'BrahMos' missile would be inducted into the Indian Air Force in 2012 that would ensure all the three wings of the military are equipped with the supersonic cruise missile, a top defence official said today according to DD India. "We have developed the airborne missile part, and process of integrating it with the Aircraft 'Sukhoi' was progressing', BrahMos Aerospace Ltd CMD A Shivathanu Pillai told the news agency at the BrahMos Aerospace's facility in Thiruvananthapuram. Trial run of Airborne BrahMos missile would be held next year and the target was to integrate it with the Aircraft in...

Russian Yakhont Missile to deploy on Syria's Coastline? Posted by Sean Meade at 8/5/2009 10:40 AM CDT David Eshel writes The recent delivery of an advanced Russian-made anti-ship missile to Iran has Israeli defense officials concerned it will be transferred to Syria and Hizbullah and used against the Israel Navy in a future conflict. According to media reports, the P-800 Yakhont, the supersonic cruise missile can be launched from the coast and hit sea-borne targets up to 300 kilometers away. The missile carries a 200-kilogram warhead and flies a meter-and-a-half above sea level, making it extremely difficult to intercept. The...

NEW DELHI: For the second time in a month, the Block II version of the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile with a striking range of 290 km, successfully hit its target during a test at the Pokhran firing range on Sunday, DRDO officials said. "The missile was successfully launched at 1115 hours in the morning and in the next two-and-a-half minutes, it hit the bull's eye in the Pokhran firing range in Rajasthan," an official said. This was the third test-firing of the latest Block II version of the missile. During the test, Army's Director General of Military Operations Lieutenant General...

BANGALORE (India), February 12 (RIA Novosti) - The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile will be commissioned by the Indian air force in 2012, the head of the BrahMos Aerospace company said on Thursday. Established in 1998, BrahMos Aerospace, a joint Indian-Russian venture, produces and markets BrahMos supersonic missiles, whose sea-based and land-based versions have been successfully tested and put into service with the Indian army and navy. "The [BrahMos] missile will be put in service in 2012," the company's CEO, Sivathanu Pillai said, presenting the airborne version of the missile at the Aero India-2009 air show in India. The BrahMos missile...

New Delhi: The army tested its nuclear-capable Brahmos supersonic cruise missile yesterday in a province bordering Pakistan, despite already tense relations with Islamabad following the Mumbai terror attacks, a news report said. New Delhi and Islamabad regularly test missiles, but normally only give each other prior notice for long-range launches. It was not immediately clear whether India informed Pakistan ahead of yesterday's test. Defence Minister A.K. Antony said the test was planned and not directed at any country, the Press Trust of India news agency reported Defence ministry officials were not immediately available for comment. The test comes amid increased...

Russia and India perfect BrahMos 15:27 | 07/ 02/ 2008 MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti commentator Andrei Kislyakov) - Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov arrives in India on February 12 for the opening ceremony of the Year of Russia in India. A joint project, years in the making, the Year of Russia in India will inject further momentum into military-technical cooperation between the two countries, an area that is already leading Russian-Indian business relations. Military cooperation is based on the latest achievements in the defense industry. A case in point is the BrahMos-2, a new tactical cruise missile named after India's Brahmaputra River...

New Delhi - India successfully test-fired an indigenously developed interceptor missile on Thursday, news reports said. The Advanced Air-Defence (ADD) missile, which has the capacity to destroy incoming hostile ballistic missiles, was fired from the a test range located off the coast of eastern Orissa state, PTI news agency reported quoting defence officials. The interceptor missile was used to destroy a target missile which was a modified version of India's Prithvi ballistic missile. During an earlier trial on Sunday, the ADD missile successfully intercepted an electronic target. Authorities in Balasore district, where the test range is located, evacuated all civilians...

Aug 28, 2007 Israel worries Iran may give Russian anti-ship missile to Syria, Hizbullah By YAAKOV KATZ The recent delivery of an advanced Russian-made anti-ship missile to Iran has defense officials concerned it will be transferred to Syria and Hizbullah and used against the Israel Navy in a future conflict. Called the SSN-X-26 Yakhont, the supersonic cruise missile can be launched from the coast and hit sea-borne targets up to 300 kilometers away. The missile carries a 200-kilogram warhead and flies a meter-and-a-half above sea level, making it extremely difficult to intercept. Its closest Western counterpart is the US-made Tomahawk...

Smooth Test Of India-Russia Missile Will Boost Buyers MOSCOW, April 25 (Bernama) -- Another successful testing of the Indian-Russian BrahMos missile will increase the number of potential importer countries for the missile, Arms-Tass learnt by phone on Tuesday from head of the BrahMos Aerospace Company, Dr Sivathanu Pillai. According to the company head, the Indian military and specialists are fully satisfied with the results of the regular 14th test of the BrahMos missile, which took place last Sunday at the Chandipur proving ground, located on the Gulf of Bengal coast in the Indian Orissa State. "It was the last test...

Indonesia evinces interest in Brahmos missile NEW DELHI, APR 10 (PTI) After Malaysia, another ASEAN nation, Indonesia, has evinced keen interest in acquiring Brahmos supersonic cruise missile, especially its ship-to-land versions. A visit to the Brahmos complex here was the highlight of a tour by Indonesian Navy chief Admiral Siamet Soebijanto. Indonesia has taken keen interest in the cruise missile developed by India and Russia. On a three-day visit here, the Indonesian Naval chief had a meeting with the Defence Minister A K Antony after talks with his Indian counterpart Admiral Sureesh Mehta. Soebijanto was also given a detailed briefing...

US fears Iran has long-range Russian missiles By JPOST.COM STAFF The US fears Iran received missiles capable of hitting US naval vessels in the Persian Gulf, Israel Radio quoted a sources in Washington on Tuesday. The missiles, Russian-made FFM-22 missiles, are capable of reaching a speed of Mach 2 and can be fitted with tactical nuclear warheads. The US suspects Iran acquired FFM-22s from Russia at the end of the Cold War, the source said.

Tiruchirapalli, Feb 2 (ANI): Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Managing Director of the Delhi based BrahMos Aerospace Centre A Sivathanu Pillai said here that India and Russia are working towards developing a Hypersonic Cruise Missile, a more advanced version of the BrahMos. Calling India a leader in the category of the supersonic missile system owing to the success of the BrahMos Cruise Missiles, Pillai, who is also the Chief Controller of the Research and Development wing of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), reiterated that the leadership can be sustained through mutual efforts. The 2.8 Mach supersonic speed...

Islamabad, Feb. 12: Pakistan today condemned anti-ship cruise missile test by India, calling it a sign of extremism deliberately timed to attract minimal world attention. "India is an extremist country and it is dying to display its armament," Pakistan's Information Minister Sheikh Rashid was quoted as saying in an agency report. This test comes at a time when the world is facing a serious crisis and all countries are looking towards Iraq, the agency further quoted the minister as saying. "India has chosen this time deliberately, so it goes almost unnoticed," the minister is reported to have alleged.

July 11, 2006: The Indian army has activated it's first BrahMos cruise missile battalion. The PJ-10 BrahMos missiles are carried, three to a truck, on a vehicle which also acts as a launcher. The 3.2 ton missile has a range of 300 kilometers and has a 660 pound warhead. Perhaps the most striking characteristic of the BrahMos is its high speed, literally faster (at up to 3,000 feet per second) than a rifle bullet. India and Russia developed the weapon together, and also offer the BrahMos for export. The high price of each missile, about $2.3 million, restricts the number...

BANGALORE: India and Russia have pumped in $50 million to develop an aircraft version of supersonic cruise missile BrahMos, according to a top official of the joint venture. "Development for the aircraft version is a new (initiative), which was not originally contemplated. Towards that we have added $50 million in the company as investment from both India and Russia," CEO and MD of BrahMos Aerospace A Sivathanu Pillai said in Bangalore on Friday. Pillai said the Indian Air Force (IAF) would integrate the missile with Sukhoi-30 fighters. "We have now completed the feasibility study for integrating the BrahMos with Sukhoi-30...

New Delhi (Rahul Dutta) The government has given the go-ahead to the Army to raise a regiment of Brahmos missile thereby giving India a definite edge over Pakistan in conventional warfare. The decision to raise the Brahmos missile, jointly developed and produced by India and Russia, was taken by the recently held CCS, sources said here on Thursday. The Government has given the go-ahead to the Army to raise a regiment of Brahmos missile thereby giving India a definite edge over Pakistan in conventional warfare. The regiment to be raised in the ongoing Tenth Five-year plan period 2002-2007 will have...

2. Cooperation between the two countries in the field of Defence continues to be one of the most active directions of development. Will the same attention be paid to this sphere in future too? India-Russia relations in defence and military-technical cooperation are mutually beneficial and have deep roots. Our military technical cooperation is growing from strength to strength. It has transcended a buyer-seller relationship. India and Russia have now graduated to joint design, development and production. The jointly developed "BrahMos" missile is a glowing example of the new dimensions of Indo-Russian cooperation in this sphere. India and Russia have also...