Nishant was arrested Monday in a joint operation by the Uttar Pradesh Police and their Maharashtrian counterpart at BrahMos' Wardha Road facility in Nagpur for allegedly leaking "technical information" to Pakistan.
During the court proceedings, an Investigating Officer of the UP ATS said that Nishant Agrawal was in touch with two Facebook accounts, operated under the names 'Neha Sharma' and 'Pooja Ranjan'.
Supersonic cruise missile BrahMos was successfully test fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Chandipur
The BrahMos missile program is a joint venture between India’s DRDO and Russian rocket design bureau NPO Mashinostroyeniya.
Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the missile hit the target with "pin-point" accuracy and the success will further bolster India's national security.
In its current supersonic avatar, the BrahMos cruise missiles has a flight range of upto 290 kms and it can be armed with a conventional 200-300 kg warhead.
BrahMos is the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile with a multi-platform, multi-mission role. It is now capable of being launched from land, sea and air.
BrahMos ALCM, weighing 2.5 tonnes, is the heaviest weapon to be deployed on India's Su-30 aircraft, modified by Hindustan Aeronautical Ltd to carry weapons.
The Defence Ministry said the missile hit a sea-based target in the Bay of Bengal from the combat jet. The land and warship versions of the missile have already been inducted into the armed forces.
With the maiden test-firing of BrahMos cruise missile from a Sukhoi-30 MKI fighter, India is all set to create history.
The land-to-land configuration of Brahmos missile was launched from a mobile autonomous launcher (MAL).
India today successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile today.
India today successfully test-fired the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, which is capable of carrying a warhead of 300 kg, from a test range along the Odisha coast.
Having acquired the membership of Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) last June, India has decided to extend the range of BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from 290 km to 450 km.
India has held a range of talks on the sale of indigenously developed surface-to-air Akash missile and supersonic Bramhos missile to Vietnam, the government on Friday said. “India and Vietnam share a strategic partnership. Defence
India is planning to sell defence equipments to UAE during the ongoing visit of Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, according to a report in ‘Khaleej Times’.
BrahMos Aerospace is working to develop hypersonic boomerang missiles that could be reused, according to its CEO Sudhir Kumar Mishra.
India, taking a huge step forward to strategically strengthen its military capabilities, has decided to work with Moscow to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600-km-plus range and an ability to hit protected targets
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