Previous Year Question
In March 2009 the BrahMos Missile was tested at
Pokharan
Chandipur
Cape Canveral
Sri Harikota
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution
In March 2009, the BrahMos Block-II Land Attack Cruise Missile was tested at the Pokhran Test Range in Rajasthan.
This Block-II version was specially developed with the capability to identify and precisely strike a designated target among several similar targets located close to one another.
Successful trials were conducted in March 2009. On 5 March 2009, BrahMos Block-II was successfully tested at Pokhran, and on 29 March 2009, another important trial successfully demonstrated its ability to hit the designated target.
BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile system jointly developed by India's DRDO and Russia's NPOM, and land, sea and air-launched variants of the system have been developed.