Sukhoi-30 fighter
jet on 21 November 2013 has been selected as the platform to mount the
supersonic BrahMos missiles by the Indian Air Force. The first test launch will
be carried out by the end of 2014.
The air version of the BrahMos missile is ready but testing; simulations
and aircraft modifications will take about a year. Thus the final flight with
the missile will be done only at the end of 2014.
This is the only supersonic cruise missile platform in the world with
abilities to travel at the supersonic speed and it can also be launched from
both the sea and land. The BrahMos missile was jointly developed by the Indian
and Russian Army in early 2000s and has since been inducted by the Army and the
Navy. An air platform, has however, not been completed yet.
The Sukhoi Su-30MK
aeroplane has been designed on the platform of the Su-27UB. It is in the series
production in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and in Irkutsk. It is a two seat highly
manoeuvrable fighter designed for air-superiority and strikes at ground and
naval surface targets using a variety of guided and unguided ADO, with an option
of supporting group actions.
The negotiations to
supply the Su-27 type fighter started in 1994 and the design bureau started the
development of Su-30 based plane for India's Air Force in 1995. A.F. Barkovsky
was appointed chief designer of the project.
BrahMos is the first
supersonic cruise missile known to be in service. BrahMos Weapon Complex first
version was inducted in the Indian Navy from 2005 with INS Rajput as the first
ship. The first regiment of BrahMos missile Block (A1) with the formation of
N816 missile regiments and the deliveries started to the Indian Army in 2007.
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