BrahMos – M will not be limited to Air Force variant only ,Claims Alexander Maksichev

[Aarush]

BrahMos-M ( M for Mini ) will not be limited to “air-to-surface” roles for Air Force only said managing co-director of BrahMos Aerospace Alexander Maksichev to Russian media . Maksichev said that BrahMos- M could be adopted to develop “surface-to-surface” variant for ships and Army, as well as a “submarine-to-surface” for launch from submarines regular torpedo launchers can be created .

full-scale mockup of a new BrahMos-M missile was first displayed at DEFEXPO-2014 Land, Naval & Internal Homeland Security Systems Exhibition in India, earlier this year . Dr. Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and MD of the BrahMos Aerospace Company at that time had said that work on a detail design and an initial configuration of the rocket was completed.

BrahMos-M is claimed to be only 1.5 tons in weight, half of 3 tons weight of original BrahMos Ship variant and its length will be 6 m, diameter 50 cm, down from length of 10 m and a diameter of 70 cm of current BrahMos missile . Maksichev said Advancement of technology will allow BrahMos-M to cover same range of 290 km with 300 kg warhead at same supersonic speed of Mach 3 .

Maksichev said that BrahMos-M under design and development for deployment on fighter aircraft and should be ready in the next 2-3 years. According to Dr Pillai Su-30MKI will be able to carry three rockets and it will be possible to put two BrahMos-M rockets on a carrier-based MiG-29k and upgraded Airforce Mig-29SMT and later can be adapted into French Rafale and FGFA a 5th generation fighter aircraft under development .

Maksichev also said that Provision to carry Submarine launched BrahMos M can be made in new submarines to be procured for Indian Navy under 75I program ,if tender is offered to Russian Submarine developers.

Russo-Indian joint-venture enterprise BrahMos was established in 1998 and PJ-10 aka BrahMos was first test fired in 2001 , Missile was based on Soviet era supersonic cruise missiles based on the Russian-designed NPO Mashinostroyenie 3M55 Yakhont (SS-N-26).

BrahMos – M will not be limited to Air Force variant only ,Claims Alexander Maksichev | idrw.org

 

[SURYA-1]

How will it be imparted initial speed of fighter on land or ship to go the distance ??

 

[Abingdonboy]

How will it be imparted initial speed of fighter on land or ship to go the distance ??

Will need an additional booster rocket -which has been removed on the AL-Bhramos version to save weight, but is on the land and ship based Bhramos versions.

 

[Echo_419]

Will need an additional booster rocket -which has been removed on the AL-Bhramos version to save weight, but is on the land and ship based Bhramos versions.

The missile has really good export Potential,but we need to ramp up the production

 

[Agent_47]

BrahMos-M is claimed to be only 1.5 tons in weight, half of 3 tons weight of original BrahMos Ship variant and its length will be 6 m, diameter 50 cm, down from length of 10 m and a diameter of 70 cm of current BrahMos missile . Maksichev said Advancement of technology will allow BrahMos-M to cover same range of 290 km with 300 kg warhead at same supersonic speed of Mach 3 .

If we can achieve this , it will be a true game changer.
It will be one of a kind.

 

[KalaGhoda]

so, basically a smaller brahmos..

brahmos -> brahmos-m -> smaller brahmos.

payload and type of payload it can carry shouldn't change though.

 

[Water Car Engineer]

Wouldnt Brahmos M render Brahmos-1 obsolete?

 

[kurup]

so, basically a smaller brahmos..

brahmos -> brahmos-m -> smaller brahmos.

payload and type of payload it can carry shouldn't change though.

brahmos-m is smaller brahmos .

 

[HariPrasad]

Wouldnt Brahmos M render Brahmos-1 obsolete?

No because current brahmos have >500 KM range.

 

[Ammyy]

But how much time needed to develop it??

They said they will test in 2012 now 2014 is about to end.... how much more time required?????

 

[KalaGhoda]

brahmos-m is smaller brahmos .

see, they are gonna make a "brahmos" out of the "brahmos-m". that's what this article says...a land attack, sea and sub based brahmos based on this "brahmos-m".

i kinda like that. two versions, smaller, more versatile brahmos which might be intregrated with the IA and not as a seperate regiment.i mean, integrate within Indian Army.

 

[HariPrasad]

But how much time needed to develop it??

They said they will test in 2012 now 2014 is about to end.... how much more time required?????

Now the say that they will test it by 2014 end.

 

[Agent_47]

But how much time needed to develop it??

They said they will test in 2012 now 2014 is about to end.... how much more time required?????

You are talking about Brahmos - A ,which is only air launched. Which should be tested this year.
This is brahmos- M reveled on last defexpo.

 

[HariPrasad]

Now I am awaiting for LRCM test. It will give us a full spectrum of highly accurate cruise missiles of Mach 2.8 to 3.5 speed and striking capability of 50 to 600 KM +.

 

[sancho]

so, basically a smaller brahmos...

Yes, M for Mini, but the propulsion system should be newly developed to achieve the same performance of the current version.

Wouldnt Brahmos M render Brahmos-1 obsolete?

Yes, since it's aimed at the same roles with the same performance, while the smaller size increases it's application potential (can be used from more vessels, more aircrafts and in higher numbers in the same space). A complete game changer will be the hypersonic Brahmos, since everything will be developed from scratch.