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Comparison
of Brahmos Supersonic Cruise Missile with a Subsonic Cruise Missile |
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The Advantages of Brahmos Supersonic
Cruise Missile |
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Long flight range
with supersonic speed all through the flight. |
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Shorter
flight times
leading to lower target dispersion and quicker engagement. |
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Varieties
of flight trajectories. |
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‘Fire and forget’
principle of operation. |
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Higher
destructive capability aided by the large kinetic energy of impact. |
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Higher
effectiveness against ship defences. |
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Canister
for storage and transportation. |
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Missile Configuration |
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The Brahmos missile has identical configuration for
land, sea and sub sea platforms. The air-launched version has a smaller
booster and additional tail fins for stability during launch. |
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The missile is launched from a canister, which also
acts as storage cum transportation container. |
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The active-passive radar seeker and warhead can be
customized for different radio-contrast land targets. Brahmos also
facilitates launch of several missiles in salvo against a group of
targets, land-based as well as ships. |
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Propulsion system consists of a solid booster and a
liquid ramjet sustainer. The initial control is effected by thrusters
and jet vanes to turn the missile to the direction of the target,
inertial navigation system controls the missile during the midcourse and
the terminal phase through an active radar seeker, with special
electronic counter measures. |
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