Dismissing reports on recent border transgression by the Chinese army, Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar Thursday said two more regiments of the short-range supersonic cruise missile, BrahMos, will be inducted into the Army within the next 15 days. [related-post] It is in the final stage of approval, Parrikar said during an interaction with the media on the sidelines of the commissioning ceremony of the 50th batch of medical graduates at the Armed Forces Medical College in Pune. Launched from multiple platforms on land, ship, submarines and air, the BrahMos will raise India’s operational and strategic surface-to-surface missile capability, he said. These missiles, which can hit surface targets by flying as low as 10 metres above the ground, have been developed as a joint venture between India’s DRDO and the Federal State Unitary Enterprise NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia under BrahMos Aerospace. Referring to the ‘Make in India’ initiative in the defence sector, Parrikar said the proposal to purchase regiments of the Pinaka rocket system also stands approved.
