{"id":216221,"date":"2023-05-15T00:45:56","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=216221"},"modified":"2023-05-15T00:45:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:15:56","slug":"indian-navy-test-fires-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/05\/15\/indian-navy-test-fires-brahmos-supersonic-cruise-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Navy test-fires BrahMos supersonic cruise missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, 14 May: A BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired from the Indian Navy&#8217;s frontline guided missile destroyer INS Mormugao, officials said on May 14.<br \/>\nThe missile firing demonstrated the Indian Navy&#8217;s firepower at sea, they said.<br \/>\n&#8220;INS Mormugao, the latest guided-missile destroyer, successfully hit &#8216;bulls eye&#8217; during her maiden BrahMos supersonic cruise missile firing,&#8221; a Navy official said.<br \/>\n&#8220;The ship and her potent weapon, both indigenous, mark another shining symbol of &#8216;AatmaNirbharta&#8217; and Indian Navy&#8217;s firepower at sea,&#8221; the official added.<br \/>\nThe location of the test-firing of the missile is not immediately known.<br \/>\nBrahMos Aerospace Pvt Ltd, an India-Russian joint venture, produces the supersonic cruise missiles that can be launched from submarines, ships, aircraft, or land platforms.<br \/>\nBrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound. India is also exporting the BrahMos missiles.<br \/>\nIn January last year, India sealed a $375 million deal with the Philippines for supplying three batteries of the missile. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 14 May: A BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired from the Indian Navy&#8217;s frontline guided missile destroyer INS Mormugao, officials said on May 14. The missile firing demonstrated the Indian Navy&#8217;s firepower at sea, they said. &#8220;INS Mormugao, the latest guided-missile destroyer, successfully hit &#8216;bulls eye&#8217; during her maiden BrahMos supersonic cruise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}