About 500 engineers and technical people will get direct employment in the BrahMos Production Centre which will be built by investing Rs 300 crore
For over two decades, the supersonic BrahMos cruise missile has been portrayed as a triumph of Indo-Russian co-development and co-manufacture. Even the missile’s name — BrahMos — is derived from combining the names of a major river from each country: India’s Brahmaputra and Russia’s Moskva.
Numerous analysts have expressed scepticism that India has played a role in designing the BrahMos. They say the missile is based entirely on Russian technology, while India merely manufactures the missile from blueprints provided by Russia.
On Wednesday, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government, which is trying to become a defence manufacturing hub, issued a statement that said the BrahMos missile “is based on the technology of Russia's P-800 Oniks cruise missile”.
Later in the statement, the UP government changed tack, stating: “The missile has been designed, developed and produced by BrahMos Aerospace — a joint venture of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and of NPO Mashinostroyeniya (NPOM).”
This was in the context of a request from BrahMos Aerospace Chief Sudhir Misra to the UP Expressways Industrial Development Authority (UPEIDA) and UP government seeking 200 acre of land for a facility to build the BrahMos. A delegation from BrahMos Aerospace also met UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.
The current version of the BrahMos cruise missile is assembled at a facility in Hyderabad. But UPEIDA is aiming to manufacture the new, improved BrahMos cruise missile.
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