India's BrahMos Missile explained (Video uploaded June 18, 2025 by Buddhi Media)
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The BrahMos (also designated as PJ-10)[14] is a long-range,[15] ramjet-powered supersonic cruise missile that can be launched from submarines, ships, fighter aircraft or land (via a TEL).[16]
BrahMos is the result of a joint venture set up in 1995 between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the Russian Federation's NPO Mashinostroyeniya, who together have formed BrahMos Aerospace.[17] The missile is based on Russia's P-800 Oniks/Yakhont.[18][19] The name BrahMos is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.
Land-launched, ship-launched as well as air-launched[20] versions have been inducted and are in service with the Indian Army, Air Force and 20 warships of the Indian Navy.[21]
The variants of the BrahMos weigh from 1,200 to 3,000kg; nuclear or conventional warhead 200-300kg, 1m CEP. Ship and land launched up to 900km range. The BrahMos (Next Generation-NG) will be/is submarine capable as its diameter will be 0.5m, weigh 1,500kg, speed Mach 3.5.
The Philippine Marine Corps operates 2 batteries (each with 9 missiles) as of April 2025. These are shore based, anti-ship variants. A third battery is on its way.
Potential ASEAN users include: Vietnam; Indonesia (which already has the ship launched Yakhont parent design, from Russia); Brunei and Malaysia.
The missile guidance has been developed by BrahMos Aerospace. In 2016, after India became a member of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), India and Russia gradually increased the range of the missile.[22][23][24][25] In 2024, Indian Navy ordered 220 BrahMos extended-range missiles with 800 km range.[4]
The CEO of the joint Indo-Russian BrahMos program, Atul Rane, stated in 2022, a future hypersonic missile, to be called the BrahMos-II, will likely be developed from and have similar characteristics to the 3M22 Zircon.[26][27][28]
China
One of the major issues regarding sales of the missile is that the nations looking to buy may have increasingly stressful relations with China. China is one of the main nations that has objections about its neighbours getting these missiles for their navies. It views the selling of these missiles as an act of belligerence and interference in the disputed territories China believes it owns, like the South China Sea.[312]
China's concerns were believed to be a direct cause behind the unsuccessful sale of BrahMos to Vietnam even though Vietnam has previously acquired and commissioned the Russian Bastion-P coastal defence systems which use the largely-equivalent Yakhont anti-ship missile.[313][314]
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See earlier Submarine Matters articles on the BrahMos and BrahMos-II HERE.
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