India never test-fires its missiles from the North, all the tests have been conducted in the Bay of Bengal why would India test fire empty Brahmos from the North. Even if they were testing a New variant of Brahmos they would have fired it in Chandipur and not Sirsa. India only tests Brahmos in Andaman and Nicobar islands, there’s no way India tests in populated states like Punjab and Haryana.
BrahMos-NG (290) – It is important to note it crashed
Now let’s compare the length, speed, structure of the crashed missile with coming to BrahMos NG.
Speed of Crashed Missile Mach 2.5 ended with 3 Speed of Bhramos speed Mach 3- 3.5
Distance traveled (33KM + 124KM + 104KM= 260KM)
The description so far matches that of the BrahMos supersonic missile and the fact that there was no warhead means it was a test firing. Brahmos had software problems (shifting from inertial navigation, GPS, inbuilt mapping, AESA transition & solid fuel boost to ramjet) One test landed 50 KMs away from the target. Maybe BrahMos-NG has a sleeker up-gradation with a range of approx 300 KMs test flights 2022-24.
It is likely the test trial of BrahMos-NG (Next Generation) (mini version of BrahMos) from Sukhoi Su-30MKI went wrong. That means it was air-launched, not surface-launched. Moreover, Brahmos NG is half of the size of the original Brahmos they now compare the size and structure of both. It’s a failure and the Test went wrong for the following reasons:
