Surface to surface supersonic cruise missile BRAHMOS has been again test fired today from the Intrim Test Range, Chandipur off Odisha coast. The test comes two days after defence scientists conducted a similar trial from the same site.

A Sivathanu Pillai, CEO and Managing Director of the Brahmos Aerospace, an Indo-Russian joint venture company developing the missile system, said that today's launch was a developmental trial of the land version of Brahmos incorporating certain new systems. Brahmos can hit the enemy target upto a distance of two hundred ninety kilometers.

The missile can carry two hundred to Three hundred kilograms of conventional and nuclear warheads. Brahmos has already been inducted into Army and Navy of the Indian Armed Forces.