English: Brahmos missile (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Stop Laughing! Here is the official announcement about the way the “successful Brahmos” was “successfully” tested. We didn’t make it up! Stop Laughing!
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“The submarine-launched version of the missile was tested from an underwater pontoon off Visakhapatnam around 2.10pm. BrahMos chief A Sivathanu Pillai promptly declared, “The missile is fully ready for fitment in the ‘Project-75 India‘ submarines of the Indian Navy in vertical launch configuration, which will make the platform (submarine) one of the most powerful weapon platform in the world.”
English: BrahMos missiles on Lada class non-nuclear submarine maquette. MAKS-2009 Русский: Макет размещения ракет БраМос на подводных лодках класса Лада (Амур 950). МАКС-2009 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Lada wont be ready till 2020
Please notice the fact that the missle was tested from an “underwater pontoon”, essentially a steel plank which was sunk underwater. Why did the Bharati Defense industry do this? Because the submarines are missing!
It not unusual in Bharat to have missiles which don’t have submarines of Aircraft-carrier planes without aircraft-carriers.
Some in Bharat ask: “What’s the use of having bullets but no gun to fire them from?
Russia has not deployed the BrahMos in its own Navy!
The Times of India reports:
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Indian Coast Guard seal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
The BrahMos missile cannot be fitted on the Navy’s existing fleet of 10 ageing Russian Kilo-class and four German HDW submarines, half of them in any case are fully operational at any given time. Nor can it be deployed on the six French Scorpene submarines being constructed in the Rs 23,562-crore Project-75 underway at Mazagon Docks (MDL) in Mumbai, under which the vessels will now be delivered in the 2015-2020 timeframe three years behind schedule.
- Project-75 India, in turn, has failed to take off after going around in circles for several years now.”
- The Army is moving ahead to induct three versions of the multi-role BrahMos, having already placed orders worth Rs 9,484 crore, over the next two-three years. Navy and IAF, in turn, have ordered BrahMos missiles worth Rs 3,568 corore and Rs 1,295 crore, respectively, as of now.
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