Drop and dummy test scheduled for Indo-Russian BrahMos missile

BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian multinational defence firm, will begin drop and dummy testing of the lighter and smaller New Era (NG) BrahMos missile by mid-2025, with flight trials anticipated by the tip of the identical yr.

“By 2026, we’ll induct [the missile] into the Indian Air Drive (IAF),” claimed Atul Dinkar Rane, director basic of the Defence Analysis and Improvement Organisation (DRDO) and CEO and managing director of BrahMos Aerospace.

On BrahMos Aerospace awaiting funds from gross sales of the NG, Rane – who was talking on the NDTV Defence Summit in Delhi on March 7 – remarked: “We’ve completed