NPO Mashinostroyenia confirms plan to increase the range of BrahMos

NPO Mashinostroyenia Director General Alexander Leonov has confirmed that India and Russia are working towards extending the range of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile.

Indian Army's BrahMos Mobile Autonomous Launchers (MAL) (2)
By Anirvan Shukla (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons

“We are starting this work already, the first part will be research, and the second will be implementation. As usual, this will take two or three years… The range will be increased significantly. Mayby not several times by it will be notable,” he told reporters.