Company type | Government-owned corporation |
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Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
Founded | 05 December 1995 |
Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Key people | Atul Dinkar Rane (CEO & Managing Director) |
Products | Cruise missiles |
Total assets | US$5 billion (2013) |
Owners | Defense Research and Development Organisation (India) and NPO Mashinostroeyenia (Russia) |
Website | brahmos.com |
The BrahMos Aerospace is an Indo-Russian multinational aerospace and defense corporation, with core manufacturing concentrations in Cruise missiles. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, it was founded as a joint venture between the India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia. Company's name is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.
The company currently manufactures BrahMos missile with a range of 290 km and traveling at speeds of Mach 2.8. [1] It is currently developing BrahMos-II, a hypersonic cruise missile.[ citation needed ]
India is a member of the MTCR, India and Russia are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600 km-plus range [2] and an ability to hit protected targets with pinpoint accuracy. [2] [3]
After the Gulf War of the 1990s, there was a feeling that it was necessary to have a cruise missile system in India. As a result, in 1995, then Scientific Advisor of India to Defense Minister A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Deputy Defence Minister of Russia N.V. Mikhailov signed an inter-governmental agreement in Moscow.[ citation needed ]
India holds a 50.5% share stake in the company and Russia holds the other 49.5%.[ citation needed ]
BrahMos Aerospace production centre first started at Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. In 2007, BrahMos Aerospace acquired Kerala Hitech Industries Limited at Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala and converted it into BrahMos Aerospace Trivandrum Limited [4] which made it into the second missile making unit for a world-class missile facility with system integration and testing. [5] [6]
BrahMos Aerospace is going to set up a 200-acre factory for the production of BrahMos NG in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow. [7] [8] This third unit that will be involved in the production of BrahMos missile.[ citation needed ]
BrahMos is having other manufacturing facilities and production centre in Nagpur in Maharashtra and Pilani in Rajasthan. [9]
The fulfill the aim which was to design, develop, manufacture and market the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile system. [10]
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