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| Company type | Government-owned corporation |
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| Industry | Aerospace and Defense |
| Founded | 05 December 1995 (05 December 1995) |
| Headquarters | New Delhi, India |
Key people | Atul Dinkar Rane (CEO & Managing Director) |
| Products | Cruise missiles |
| Total assets | US$5billion (2013) |
| Owners | Defense Research and Development Organisation (India) and NPO Mashinostroeyenia (Russia) |
| Website | brahmos.com |
The BrahMos Aerospace is an Indo-Russian multinational aerospace and defense corporation, with core manufacturing concentrations in Cruise missiles. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, it was founded as a joint venture between the India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and NPO Mashinostroyenia of Russia. Company's name is a portmanteau formed from the names of two rivers, the Brahmaputra of India and the Moskva of Russia.
The company currently manufactures BrahMos missile with a range of 290 km and traveling at speeds of Mach 2.8.[1] It is currently developing BrahMos-II, a hypersonic cruise missile.[citation needed]
India is a member of the MTCR, India and Russia are now planning to jointly develop a new generation of Brahmos missiles with 600 km-plus range[2] and an ability to hit protected targets with pinpoint accuracy.[2][3]
After the Gulf War of the 1990s, there was a feeling that it was necessary to have a cruise missile system in India. As a result, in 1995, then Scientific Advisor of India to Defense Minister A. P. J. Abdul Kalam and Deputy Defence Minister of Russia N.V. Mikhailov signed an inter-governmental agreement in Moscow.[citation needed]
India holds a 50.5% share stake in the company and Russia holds the other 49.5%.[citation needed]
BrahMos Aerospace production centre first started at HyderabadinAndhra Pradesh. In 2007, BrahMos Aerospace acquired Kerala Hitech Industries LimitedatThiruvananthapuraminKerala and converted it into BrahMos Aerospace Trivandrum Limited[4] which made it into the second missile making unit for a world-class missile facility with system integration and testing.[5][6]
BrahMos Aerospace is going to set up a 200-acre factory for the production of BrahMos NGinUttar Pradesh's Lucknow.[7][8] This third unit that will be involved in the production of BrahMos missile.[citation needed]
BrahMos is having other manufacturing facilities and production centre in NagpurinMaharashtra and PilaniinRajasthan.[9]
The fulfill the aim which was to design, develop, manufacture and market the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile system.[10]
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