Small hitches in BrahMos missile test: DRDO

New Delhi, Jan 21 (PTI) A day after BrahMos missile
was test-fired, India's Defence Research and Development
Organisation (DRDO) Wednesday said there were some minor
hitches during the trial which they were looking into.

There was small hitches in the last stage of the
missile during the test, which was conducted in the Pokhran
ranges of Rajasthan on a new version of BrahMos missile
Tuesday, Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO)
officials said.

They indicated that the missile did not hit the target
and scientists are looking into it, they said.

The army Tuesday test-fired a new version of the
nuclear-capable BrahMos missile.

The missile, with a 290-km range and capable of touching
a speed 2.8 times that of sound, was launched during the trial
in its vertical mode, DRDO officials said.

BrahMos is a missile that India is developing in
collaboration with Russia and is named after the river
Brahmputra and Moscow.

During the visit of Russian Defence Minister Anatoly
Serdyukov to India late last year, an agreement was reached
between the two countries for development of a hyper-sonic
BrahMos missile, an improvement on the already-developed
supersonic missile, termed as "the most advanced" in its
category. PTI NCB