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Detailed explanation-1: -BrahMos Missile Featuring Indigenous Booster Successfully Flight Tested.

Detailed explanation-2: -The BrahMos supersonic cruise missile with increased indigenous content and improved performance was successfully test fired today from Chandipur.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ‘Manik’ STFE is designed to propel ‘Nirbhay’ ITCM, which is also India’s first indigenously built cruise missile. A two-stage missile, it is fueled by a solid rocket motor booster developed by the Advanced Systems Laboratory (ASL).

Detailed explanation-4: -The missile hit the designated target precisely. BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound. DRDO had successfully test-fired a naval variant of the BrahMos from a stealth guided-missile destroyer of the Indian Navy, recently. The missile hit the designated target precisely.

Detailed explanation-5: -While BrahMos was originally 50 per cent built in India, the missile tested on Thursday had an increased indigenous content of 70 per cent, say senior DRDO officials. In what the DRDO describes as a “text-book flight”, it announced the missile followed its predicted trajectory and met all its mission objectives.