Yogi Adityanath, Rajnath Singh Lay Foundation Stone Of BrahMos Missiles In Lucknow

New Delhi: In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of BrahMos Missile Production Complex and DRDO Lab.

BrahMos is a joint venture between India’s DRDO and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya which resulted in the creation of BrahMos Aerospace.

This will increase employment in the state’: Yogi Adityanath

Addressing the program, UP CM Adityanath said,The new BrahMos missile production unit will be set up in Lucknow. This will increase employment in the state. New India is progressing rapidly in the defense sector.

India successfully test-fired an aerial model of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile earlier this month. It was termed as a “significant milestone” in the development of BrahMos by the Defense Ministry.

‘We’re making Brahmos…so no country in the world dares to look at us with an evil eye’: Rajnath Singh

,We are not making BrahMos missile to attack any country in the world. We want to make BrahMos so that India has such power that no country in the world would dare to look at us with an evil eye: Defense Minister Rajnath Singh

The missile gets its name from two rivers: India’s Brahmaputra and Russia’s Moskva.

(with inputs from ANI)

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