India First To Build a Supersonic Cruise Missile

An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt: "India successfully tested Sunday a 'maneuverable' version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile which it has jointly developed with Russia, news reports said. The vertical-launch version of the 290-kilometer range BrahMos was tested from a warship in the Bay of Bengal off India's eastern coast, the PTI news agency reported. 'The vertical-launch version of missile was launched at 11:30 (0600 GMT) hours today from Indian Navy ship INS Ranvir and it manoeuvred successfully hitting the target ship. It was a perfect hit and a perfect mission,' BrahMos aerospace chief A Sivathanu Pillai was quoted as saying. 'After today's test, India has become the first and only country in the world to have a manoeuvrable supersonic cruise missile in its inventory,' Pillai said."

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Thanks, India

[ClosedSource]

You've just given another argument to hard-liners in the middle east to push their countries to go nuclear.

C'mon...

[Anachragnome]

C'mon, folks.

Can we PLEASE start spending all this cash on things that don't blow up?

Seems burning paper currency wasn't fast enough, now we have refined methods of destroying funds.

Re:Misleading headline

[A nonymous Coward]

You might want to brush up on everyday English, where a cruise missile attacks land targets, or ships with a stretch, since there have been no long range ship attacks.

Hint: everyday English is what most English speakers speak every day. Indeed, definitions change too. Do you know why Rocket Assisted TakeOff (RATO) is a subset of Jet Assisted TakeOff? Because when NACA did the original studies, I believe sometime around 1940, "jet" was a much more generic term. Do you know squids and octopuses jet around?

For that matter, what is the difference between missiles and rockets? There are lots of airplane launched rockets, which are unguided, and airplane launched missiles, which are generally guided. Some missiles are air breathing, others use rocket engines. I know of no air breathing rockets, tho there may have been some. There are ground launched rockets and ground launched missiles. Some ground launched missiles are air breathing, others use rocket engines. Some use both.

Find all the silly definitions you want. A missile which attacks flying airplanes is an anti-aircraft missile and they are almost entirely guided. A missile which attacks land targets is a cruise missile, and in popular usage, they are also all guided. If they aren't guided, they are rockets.