BrahMos at 25: How India is taking a critical missile technology into the future

The Brahmos missile, a weapon that has proven to be the Brahmastra for India in Operation Sindoor. The missile struck key Pakistani air bases rendering them unserviceable, therefore grounding Pakistani fighters, a key factor in getting Pakistan to come to sue for peace. The missile capable of flying at Mach-3 was unstoppable by Pakistan's Chinese origin air defences, as it was designed to do. The missile, which was first test fired 25 years ago, was first envisioned by India after watching how the American's had used their Tomahawk cruise missiles to dismantle Saddam Hussein's command and control infrastructure in 1991 during the first Gulf War, bypassing what was considered one of the most comprehensive air defence networks at that time.