India test-fired 11 missiles in less than two months amid controversy with China

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India test-fired 11 missiles

New Delhi: A Navy model of the BrahMos Supersonic Cruise Missile was successfully tested in the Arabian Sea on Sunday by an Indian Navy indigenously built destroyer. Officials gave this information. He said that the missile was fired from the ‘INS Chennai’ destroyer and it hit the target with full accuracy.

With the successful testing of BrahMos, India has so far tested 11 missiles in less than two months. These missiles are being tested at a time when the escalation between India and China on the Line of Actual Control in Eastern Ladakh has been going on for more than five months. . In June, this escalation in the Galwan Valley of Ladakh had turned into a violent skirmish (Galwan Clash) in which 20 Indian soldiers were martyred.

So far, India has tested a new version of surface-to-surface supersonic cruise missile BrahMos and anti-radiation missile Rudram-1. It has also done valor test which is a laser guided anti tank guided missile and nuclear capable hypersonic missile. India has deployed a large number of BrahMos supersonic missiles on the LAC.

Know which missiles and weapon systems India has tested in the last two months

7 September: Indigenously developed hypersonic technology demonstrator vehicle (HSTDV), which is required for cruise missiles and long-range missile systems. It was tested off the coast of Odisha.

22 September: High-Speed ​​Expandable Aerial Target (HEAT) vehicles were tested off the coast of Odisha. They can be used as targets for evaluating various missile systems.

23 September: DRDO tests indigenously developed laser-guided anti-tank guided missile in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra. According to DRDO, it can be used to defeat armored vehicles “protected by explosive reactive armor (ERA)”.

23 September: Prithvi-2 was tested from Balasore, Odisha. It is an indigenously developed nuclear capable surface-to-surface missile that uses an advanced inertial guidance system with maneuver to hit its targets according to DRDO.

30 September: BrahMos supersonic cruise missile test-fired from a land-based facility in extended range Odisha.

1 October: Laser-guided anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) was fired from an MBT Arjun tank in Ahmednagar, Maharashtra.

October 3: India successfully test-fires a new version of the nuclear-capable Shaurya missile off the Odisha coast.

5 October: India developed anti-submarine warfare and successfully developed the test-fire indigenously developed SMART torpedo system, which is required for anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations beyond the torpedo range.

October 10: India successfully tests its first indigenous anti-radiation missile Rudram-1, which can detect enemy radars on the ground.

October 18: A naval version of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was fired from indigenously built destroyer INS Chennai.

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