December 19, 200817 yr From Defense Aerospace Brahmos Crosses Another Milestone, Vertically Ship-Launched (Source: Press Information Bureau India; issued December 18, 2008) The BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile was launched from a Naval Warship in the Bay of Bengal today. The DRDO said the launch from the mobile platform was successful and all mission objectives have been met. This is the first time the missile was launched from a universal vertical launcher fitted in a new ship. All earlier launches of BrahMos missile were carried out from inclined launchers. With this, the BrahMos missile development programme achieved a milestone as most present day warships are fitted with vertical launchers.
December 19, 200817 yr With this, the BrahMos missile development programme achieved a milestone as most present day warships are fitted with vertical launchers. Scarier...it was already quite scary in some of my earlier gaming, both Harpoon and Shipwreck. BrahMos attack discussion
February 13, 200917 yr Author Lots of interesting news today, much of it coming out of the Aero India 2009 exhibition: From Aviation Week's ARES Blog Big Stick For India's Sukhois Posted by Bill Sweetman at 2/13/2009 1:01 AM CST Maxim Pyadushkin writes: The development of the air-launched version of the Russo-Indian BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has got the green light. Visiting the BrahMos booth at Aero India 2009, Indian Defense Minister A.K. Antony said he expects to see the series production of this version to start in 2012. The missile will be launched from the Indian Air Force’s Sukhoi Su-30MKI fighters. India has settled on a configuration with a single 2.5-ton BrahMos under its fuselage, leaving the fighter with another 5,000 pounds of combat load, explains Dr Sivathanu Pillai, chief of the BrahMos joint venture. (It will be the biggest missile ever carried by an operational fighter.) He also said that the air-launched missile will be optimized to engage only ground-based targets as specified by the customer – India’s Air Force. India’s navy has an anti-ship BrahMos version, while the Army uses a ground-based mobile variant. At the show BrahMos continued negotiations with Sukhoi about the modernization of Su-30MKI , including the design of airframe hardpoints and changes to the weapon control system. Tests will be carried out with two Su-30s straight off the Russian production line, plus one airframe for ground test, says BrahMos Russian co-director Alexander Baskakov. The definitive contract between IAF, BrahMos, Sukhoi and Rosoboronexport (Russia’s arms trading agency), is expected to be signed within the next few months. Flight tests will start in Russia in 2011 and later continued in India.
February 13, 200917 yr BrahMos has been the devil anytime it has been employed in both my H4.1 and Shipwreck games.
February 13, 200917 yr Mach 3 all that kinetic energy on impact even before the charge goes off with a good range and it can be launched from a fighter, this think is bad bad news.
May 12, 200916 yr Author From DefenseNews India Prepares To Induct Air Version of BrahMos Missile By vivek raghuvanshi Published: 11 May 2009 12:03 NEW DELHI - Indian scientists have completed development of the supersonic cruise missile BrahMos for all three military services. While the Navy version was the first to be inducted in 2006, the Army ordered $2 billion worth of land-based BrahMos missiles last month. The latest version to be developed - the air-launched version - has a range of 290 kilometers. Two Indian Air Force Su-30 MKI combat jets have arrived at unknown Russian facilities, where the BrahMos will be mounted on the multirole aircraft for final testing. The air version of BrahMos will fly at a speed of Mach 2.8, while the land-launched version will have a speed higher than Mach 5 [CV32: Emphasis mine. ]. The air version will be integrated on Ilyushin Il-38 maritime surveillance planes and the Su-30 MKI. The aerial version will be shorter than the standard land or marine versions, and will have the capability to auto-launch toward a target after being released from the aircraft, an Indian Air Force official said. The BrahMos has been developed by the BrahMos Corp., a joint venture between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroeyenia.
May 12, 200916 yr Wow IL-38's with these, they may as well mount them to the maritime bears also these things will be able to stay on station forever.
June 11, 200916 yr Mach 3 all that kinetic energy on impact even before the charge goes off with a good range and it can be launched from a fighter, this think is bad bad news. Speed is the demon that all air defense systems have to worry about nowadays, thanks to the VLS, the days of the subsonic ASM are numbered. Why worry about eight Harpoons when you can put twice as many missiles in the air before it reaches half way from your radar horizon? I still think Shipwreck is king though. A huge airframe backed up by a Mach 2.5 rocket. So huge that is carries it's own decoys [chaff and flares] as well as a dual mode seeker and a datalink that not only talks back to the launching platform but to other missiles as well. This was the big improvement over SS-N-12, that one medium altitude missile can designate for other, lower altitude missiles, with the smarts to understand that a replacement is required if the 'scout' missile is shot down. VLS removed the volume of fire requirement from the missile defense equation. Now it's shifted back simply due to bigger and faster weapons. Harpoon may have better ECCM but that won't mean squat if an SA-N-9 rotary launcher can empty 8 missiles in just as many seconds. There's also talk of the SA-N-9 mounts now being double stacked as well. Later D
February 5, 201313 yr Author Single Brahmos on the centerline of Su-30MKI being displayed at Aero India 2013. Brahmos 2
March 21, 201313 yr Author India Tests Submarine-Launched Supersonic Missile (RIA Novosti)Pic from Defense Update:
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