Indian Navy’s Modernization and Innovation
Indian Navy has expanded its strategic outreach and operational horizons, focusing on modernization and innovation.
• BRAHMOS supersonic cruise missile system has appreciably enhanced modern combat capabilities of the Navy.
• BRAHMOS is a state-of-art universal precision-guided weapon designed for both antiship and land-attack roles.
• The BRAHMOS naval variant has continued to evolve in lethality, maneuverability, and strike capability in the complicated maritime environment.
• It has been integrated into modern combat suites of large guided missile destroyers and stealth frigates.
• Test firings of the missile from the naval platforms have thus augmented the Navy’s firepower at sea.
Major achievements by BrahMos Aerospace in the way of significant contracts are an advanced SSM variant of the versatile weapon system BRAHMOS and Next Generation Maritime Mobile Coastal Batteries which they are making for the Indian Navy.
• The superior systems proved during test firings notable operating and performance characteristics and functionalities in their successful firings performed in 2023-24.
• BRAHMOS Aerospace has developed a compact yet more powerful and agile version called BRAHMOSNG-its ‘nextgen’ product for being a top modern yet low-cost combat asset under future inventories of the Indian Navy.
