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Indian Air Force will launch BrahMos in 2012

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Air Force India will have to adopt Russo-Indian supersonic missile BrahMos air-launched in 2012. It is reported by Defence Talk with reference to the Director General of Russo-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace Sivathanu Pillai. As expected, testing of new missiles will begin in 2011 and completed in 2012.



The portfolio of orders for the missile BrahMos billions of dollars. It is expected that until 2016 India and Russia intend to release about a thousand missiles of various modifications, with about half of them will be sold to third countries. BrahMos will be three times the speed of sound, reaching 3,5 thousand kilometers per hour.



Previously completed development and testing of missile BrahMos land-and sea These modifications have already been taken to adopt the Army and Navy in India. Now BrahMos Aerospace is developing a hypersonic missile, which would exceed the speed of sound at least five times.This missile will be virtually invulnerable to interception.



February 12, 1998 between Russia and India signed an agreement on cooperation in the development and production of missile systems with anti-ship missile. This agreement is made possible joint development of BrahMos. The first launch of BrahMos from shore installation took place in June 2001.