Navy test-fires BrahMos from warship in Goa
Enhancing the lethality of its firepower, the Indian Navy on Sunday successfully test-fired a highly-manoeuvrable version of the 290-km range BrahMos supersonic cruise missile from a warship off the coast of Goa.
“The cruise missile was test-fired from guided missile frigate INS Teg — the Navy’s latest induction from Russia — off the coast of Goa early this morning,” naval sources said. The missile, fired without a warhead, hit the target ship after performing intricate manoeuvres, they said. It had a deep penetration on the target, which caught fire, they said.
The weapon did not take a straight attack path and kept turning around before hitting the target: this capability will make it difficult for the enemy to locate Indian warships during operations, the sources said.
INS Teg, built at Yantar shipyard in Russia, had fired the missile successfully at its pre-induction trials in Russia last year.
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New charges on 26/11: Jundal a key conspirator
Age Correspondent
Mumbai, Oct. 7
The Mumbai crime branch plans to name terror suspect Abu Jundal as a “key conspirator” in the 26/11 terror attacks of 2008 in a supplementary charge-sheet that it will file by October 20.
Senior police officials said Jundal was aware of the attacks well in advance and had trained 10 terrorists in Hindi, besides being the handler of two terrorists who attacked Nariman House. Details of Jundal’s face-to-face interaction with Ajmal Kasab at Arthur Road Jail will also be a part of the chargesheet. “The final touches are being given now”, an official said.
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