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Recently, the Indian Air Force carried out successful firing of BrahMos surface-to-surface missiles from a mobile platform at Trak Island in Andaman Nicobar islands. Consider the following statements about the BrahMos Missile:
1. 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.
2. It operates on ‘Fire and Forget Principle’, adopting varieties of flights on its way to the target.
3. It can carry a conventional warhead weighing 200 to 300 kgs.
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:A |
1 and 2
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B |
2 and 3
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C |
1 and 3
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D |
1, 2 and 3
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Explanation :
- BRAHMOS is a joint venture between the Defence Research and Development Organisation of India (DRDO) and the NPOM of Russia.
- It is a two-stage (solid propellant engine in the first stage and liquid ramjet in second) air to surface missile.
- 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 kgs.
- 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.
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