Plans To Develop New Hypersonic BrahMos Missile Revealed

BrahMos Aerospace has announced plans to develop technology for hypersonic version of the BrahMos missile which can travel at five to seven times the speed of sound.

"The company is roping in academics to develop the requisite technology before going in for designing and developing missiles which can travel at Mach 5 to 7 (five to seven times the speed of sound). It will be BrahMos II version next to the present variants of Mach 2.8 to 3.5," A Sivathanu Pillai MD & CEO of BrahMos told PTI.

Pillai said the Indian Institute of Science would be part of the 20-member team developing technologies for high temperature material required to build the missile, cram-jet propulsions and energy modules and the requisite algorithms.

The latest plan is expected to take about five year to materialize and in the meantime BrahMos would work out blueprints for setting up a production centre, choice of vendors for supply of necessary components and investment structure, he said.

After these operations, BrahMos Aerospace would take up development of missiles that can come back to the originating mode after destroying the designated target, he added.