New Delhi: The long range precision strike capability  of advanced version of BRAHMOS missile was successfully validate on March 5. The missile hit the target with pin-point accuracy and demonstrated combat and mission readiness of Navy’s frontline platforms.

“Long range precision strike capability of advanced version of BRAHMOS missile successfully validated. Pin point destruction of target demonstrated combat and mission readiness of frontline platforms. Yet another shot in the arm for Aatmanirbhar Bharat,” the Navy tweeted.

The Navy conducts regular tests of the BRAHMOS, a supersonic cruise missile manufactured by an Indo-Russian joint venture and one of the world’s most lethal cruise missiles. In November 2020, a land-attack version of the BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile was successfully tested from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.