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Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile - “Fire
and Forget Principle”
BRAHMOS is a two-stage missile with a solid propellant booster engine as its first stage which
brings it to supersonic speed and then gets separated. The liquid ramjet or the second stage
then takes the missile closer to 3 Mach speed in cruise phase. Stealth technology and guidance
system with advanced embedded software provides the missile with special features.
The missile has flight range of up to 290 km with supersonic speed all through the flight, leading
to shorter flight time, consequently ensuring lower dispersion of targets, quicker engagement
time and non-interception by any known weapon system in the world.
It operates on “Fire and Forget Principle” adopting varieties of flights on its way to the target. Its
destructive power is enhanced due to large kinetic energy on impact. Its cruising altitude could
be up to 15 km and terminal altitude is as low as 10 meters. It carries a conventional warhead
weighing 200 to 300 kg.
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