Brahmos Achieves Mach 6.5 Speed During Lab Test

Chennai, Nov 28: The latest version of Indo-Russian Brahmos cruise missile has achieved a speed of Mach 6.5 during experiments at Hyderabad and the target is to achieve Mach 7, a top DRDO official said here today.

“Experiments are being done in Hyderabad. We have completed tests up to Mach 6.5,” BrahMos Aerospace Private Limited Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director A Sivathanu Pillai told reporters here.

The target is to achieve Mach 7, he said. Mach is commonly used to represent the speed of an object when it is traveling close to or above the speed of sound.

BrahMos is a cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft or land.

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