BrahMos Aerospace seeks 200-acre land in Lucknow

About 500 engineers and technical people will get direct employment in the BrahMos Production Centre which will be built by investing Rs 300 crore

For over two decades, the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile has been portrayed as a triumph of Indo-Russian co-development and co-manufacture. Even the missile’s name — BrahMos — is derived from combining the names of a major river from each country: India’s Brahmaputra and Russia’s Moskva.
 
 Numerous analysts have expressed scepticism that India has played a role in designing the BrahMos. They say the missile is based entirely on Russian technology, while India merely manufactures the missile from blueprints provided by Russia.
 
On Wednesday, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government, which is trying to become a defence manufacturing hub, issued