India-Russia joint research on BrahMos missile. Why doesn’t Russia want to use it？

Land-based BrahMos missile equipped by Indian Army [data picture]

　　A few days ago, it was reported that the Indian army had already equipped the "BrahMos" missile jointly developed by India and Russia, but the Russian army refused to equip it. Under the pressure of India, the Russian navy is considering equipping at least one ship with the "BrahMos" missile.

　　So, what is the performance of this type of missile? Why is Russia so slow to use it? Let’s get to know each other.

　　Research and development background of "Brasmo" missile

　　India and Russia jointly developed the BrahMos missile in December 1995. At that time, the Indian navy was vigorously promoting the policy of "the Indian Ocean is the Indian Ocean", which not only cost huge sums of money to introduce aircraft carriers and other ships, but also organized various domestic forces to develop advanced anti-ship missiles.

　　However, India has to seek international cooperation due to insufficient technical reserves. Under the background of strategic partnership between India and Russia, in February 1998, India and Russia signed a memorandum of understanding, and the two sides worked together to develop a new type of anti-ship missile, with the design code name PJ-10.

　　The name of the missile is BrahMos, which is the abbreviation of the famous rivers of the two countries-the Indian Brahmaputra River and the Russian moscow river River. The meaning of naming a new missile with this newly coined word is self-evident.

　　After careful guidance from Russia, Indian DRDO organization became familiar with the design and development process of supersonic anti-ship missiles, and exercised the domestic military team, achieving a new breakthrough in the localization of BrahMos missile production.

　　fundamental characteristics

　　BrahMos cruise missile has the characteristics of high precision and difficult to be found, and has successfully completed 14 tests. BrahMos missiles can be divided into two types (anti-ship type and land attack type) according to the target, and can be launched from four platforms, including mobile land-based platforms (trucks or trains), surface ships, submarines or planes. The launch type of land-based and surface ships has been deployed, the submarine launch system is being tested, and the air launch type is still being developed.

　　The missile weighs 4 tons, has a diameter of 70 cm, is 8 meters long, has a maximum range of 300 kilometers and a maximum payload of 500 kilograms (the maximum range and payload are limited by the international missile control system). The missile’s sea-skimming altitude ranges from 10 meters to 15 kilometers, and its maximum flying speed is Mach 2 in high-density air near the sea surface and Mach 2.7 in thin air at a height of 7 kilometers. The missile has three propulsion systems. First, the gas generator pushes it out of the missile box, then the solid fuel propeller accelerates it to Mach 2, and then the liquid fuel jet propulsion system delivers it to the target.

　　The missile can be launched at any angle and is extremely destructive. Two kinds of explosives can be configured. After contacting the target, one explosive explodes, and the other explodes after several milliseconds through the gap opened by the previous explosion. The missile can be launched in waves. Each truck can carry three sets of missile storage and transportation pipes, a generator and a control center. The launch interval of each missile is 5 seconds, and each missile can target different targets. For sea-based targets such as ships, airborne reconnaissance systems, such as aircraft, helicopters or drones, are needed to provide target data.

　　Its guidance system has been updated. The composite seeker can help the missile adopt inertial guidance mode in the middle of flight and radar guidance in the end of flight, which has the ability of "leaving the tube behind after launch" Radar seeker has dual guidance mode, and generally works in passive guidance mode, which can reduce the probability of detection.

　　Russia just doesn’t pretend.

　　In 1998, Russia and India began to jointly develop BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles. The sea-based and land-based types of this type of missile have been contracted for test firing and entered the Indian navy and army.

　　However, the Russian army had no plans to equip BrahMos missiles before. A Russian Defense Ministry official also said on the 20th that it was really difficult to deploy BrahMos missiles on active ships of the Russian Navy, and neither the Steregushchy nor the active submarines could be equipped with this type of missiles, because the ship construction specifications were not suitable for assembling BrahMos missiles.

　　But now, under the pressure of India, the Russian navy is considering assembling this type of missile for at least one ship.