Air to land attack brahmos - a befitting answer

The Financial Express (October 08, 2010)                                                                           Print This News

NEW DELHI: One of the mightiest Air Force of the world is proud of its professionalism, weaponry and most of all of its highly skilled daredevils manning the fighting machines both in the sky and on ground. This wing of the Indian Defence Forces is celebrating its 78th Air Force Day.

The challenges that Indian Air Force faces today are co plex in nature. The combination of external threats, the need for dealing with internal security concerns and help required to be rendered in case of natural calamities, pose a variety of problems and challenges. Moreover, a vast area with different terrain and severe climatic conditions call for a highly dedicated, trained and eveready force capable of delivering and thus, winning the trust of common man in the country.

Apart from other operational capability building measures, one of the most significant and dividend paying action on part of Air Force has been, the induction of BRAHMOS weapon system in its inventory. While the work on integration of air launched BRAHMOS missile with Su-30 MKI is in progress, the mobile land attack version has been intended by the Indian Air Force.

The combination of these two versions of BRAHMOS weapon system is bound to prove a force multiplier for the Indian Air Force. With this weapon system, the reach of the Indian Air Force will be enhanced substantially. The mobile land version, on one side will be a potent weapon system to deal with hostile war waging machinery on ground, especially air bases and important installations. On the other hand, the air launched BRAHMOS missile will give the Air Force a much awaited capability of engaging with all type of land /sea targets, much beyond the reach of other available weapon systems. Intelligent exploitation of the combined capabilities of Air Force and the BRAHMOS weapon system will ensure unmatched flexibility with speed, accuracy and destruction power. The Indian Air Force armed with BRAHMOS will be capable of resisting the adversary right from the inception stage of hostilities, by inflicting irreparable damages to the hostile Air Force and its installations on ground and destroying vital operational and logistics bases contributing towards adversary’s war waging capability.

BRAHMOS felicitates the IAF on the 78th Air force Day!

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