Top Weapons 'Made In India' That You Need To Respect

Brahmos Missile

At present, Brahmos is the proudest weapon served in the Indian Army with the record of world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile in operation.

Brahmos has been named as a combination of “Brahmaputra” and “Moskva”, because of the strategic joint venture between India and Russia. The supersonic cruise missile is built based on the P-800 Oniks cruise missile and other sea-skimming cruise missile technology from Russia.

The “Made in India” missile travels at speeds of approximately 3.0 Mach, but it’s under development to reach a staggering 5.0 Mach. The missile has a medium range of attack, which is reported at 300 km to 500 km depending on each variant. Moreover, Brahmos can be launch from varieties of geological conditions as well as other army machines such as land, ships, submarine, or aircraft.

Note that the Brahmos is considered superior to anything used by the US or NATO. To further emphasize the potential lethality of it, several militaries around the world have expressed interest in the Brahmos, including South Africa, Egypt, Philippines, Vietnam, and many others.

Su-30MKI

The Su-30MKI is an air fighter which built under license by HAL – Hindustan Aeronautics Limited with multi roles. Last month, the Indian Air Force (IAF) successfully test fired the Brahmos-A (Air) supersonic cruise missile from a Sukhoi Su-30MKI against a land target off the country's east coast in the Bay of Bengal.

With a heavyweight as its root – Sukhoi Su-30, it has impressive capabilities including superb range, advanced armaments, and maneuverability. The lethal “Made in India” fighter is a highly integrated twin-finned fighter carrying various most-advanced weapons range from gun to rocket, missile, and bomb.

In 2014, each unit of Su-30MKI cost around Rs 360 crore. It should be further noted that Russians were also interested in it, even when Sukhoi Company is developing a version of Su-30K based on the Indian Su-30MKI.

Delhi-class destroyer 

The Delhi-class destroyer is now serving in the Indian Navy as a guided-missile destroyer. Those ships were built by a Mumbai-based company MDS - Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders. For now, there are three ships categorized in this class that are serving the Indian Navy. With over 70 percent of its parts supplied by local contractors to MDS, the Delhi-class are truly made in India.

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As for armament, the Delhis features the 9K-90 Uragan system with 9M38M1 Shtil missiles and a pair of 3S-90 single-arm launchers to take the air defense role. Note that the weapon system of Delhi-class ships can track 12 targets and engage a maximum of six tracked targets at the same time.

Three ships are respectively named as INS Delhi, INS Mysore, and INS Mumbai, which came out in 1997, 1999, and 2001. Those destroyers are reportedly built at a cost of Rs 7.5 billion at the time (equivalent to Rs 24 billion or $350 million in 2019).

Kolkata-class destroyer

Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders has continued to be the major contractor to build Kolkata-class destroyers are successors of Delhi-class ships. Under the name Project 15A, they were constructed for Indian Navy to be a class of stealth guided missile destroyers and still are the largest destroyers that the Indian Navy operates at this time.

The Kolkatas were armed with lethal missile Brahmos with a naval version. Apart from that, they’re equipped with a most favorite anti-aircraft system, including MF-STAR radar and Barak 8 SAMs from Israeli Aerospace Industries.

In comparison with Delhi-class, it’s considerably more capable due to its improvements in design, modern sensors, and updated weapon systems. These also result in several substantial land-attack capabilities.

The Kolkata-class comprises three ships - INS Kolkata, INS Kochi, and INS Chennai.