Sputnik International:
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Indian Defense Minister Raksha Mantri Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday congratulated the manufacturers and the country’s Defense Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) on a successful test of a land-based supersonic cruise missile BrahMos.
The previous test of a BrahMos missile took place in late March.
The BrahMos — a portmanteau of Brahmaputra and Moscow — is a missile that has been jointly developed and produced by India and Russia since 1998. The first successful BrahMos launch took place in 2001.