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title: "BrahMos-A Finally Flies On Modified Su-30"
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date: 2016-06-25
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# BrahMos-A Finally Flies On Modified Su-30

https://youtu.be/szBn5CF_qEk
A modified Indian Air Force Su-30MKI flew today for the first time with a BrahMos-A supersonic cruise missile on its belly hardpoint. The flight from HAL's airfield in Nashik where India license-builds the Su-30 had been declared successful by the team that managed the years-long integration and test programme. To be sure, today's flight is a mini-culmination of what has been a typically complicated exercise. From the DRDO's initial assumption that a Su-30 with stiffened wings could deploy a pair of BrahMos, to Sukhoi Design Bureau's ill-tempered lack of cooperation in the platform modification exercise. Ultimately, HAL and BrahMos had to do it by themselves.

As BrahMos CEO Sudhir Mishra declared today on his Facebook page, "*Another first in the world purely Make In India effort*."

The BrahMos-A carriage flight today will be the first of many before an actual firing test. Enormous complexities with the system integration, flight laws and dynamics of weapons release/ignition have slowed progress, though today's flight finally provides a boost to the air-launched variant sub-project.

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"With today’s successful flight, the Brahmos air version programme now inches closer towards actual test firing when a 2.5-ton BRAHMOS air-to- ground missile will be fired from the Sukhoi-30 in the coming months," BrahMos said in a statement shortly after today's flight.

The statement added these interesting nuggets too:

***The powerful missile will enable the IAF penetrate deep inside the enemy territory to deliver a deadly blow to their vital installations from stand-off ranges. The integration brings a paradigm shift in the capability of the IAF vis-à-vis its adversaries. The Su-30- BRAHMOS combination will carry out air combat operations within and beyond visibility range and will provide the IAF with the capability of attacking targets protected by powerful air defence assets. ***

***Integration of BRAHMOS with the Su-30MKI will render the weapon a multi-platform capability while making the IAF the only Air Force in the world in procession of a supersonic cruise missile system.***

***Today’s flight trial has been keenly observed by several other nations in the world in possession of the Su-30 strike fighter who are looking towards acquiring a lethal weapon system for the Russian-made warplanes.***