Air-launched BrahMos boosts deep strike capability

Will target terrorist camps, enemy airfields, tactical nuclear weapons

The supersonic BrahMos, already one of the world’s most highly-regarded cruise missiles, has moved onto a fast-development track.
 
Six months after an advanced, Block III, land-attack BrahMos was successfully tested in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands, the defence ministry announced on Wednesday the successful test of the first BrahMos air-launched cruise missile (ALCM), launched from a Indian Air Force (IAF) Sukhoi-30MKI fighter to strike a target floating in the Bay of Bengal.
 
The BrahMos ALCM enhances the IAF’s ability to strike heavily defended targets deep in enemy territory. Instead of having to run the gauntlet of enemy air