The advent of hypersonic missile systems may radically change the way in which warfare is carried out:
India's BrahMos cruise missile is supersonic and not a hypersonic weapon. It currently has a short range of 300km, which is now being upgraded to 600+ km range. The BrahMos-2 missile will be hypersonic.Weapons like these will be particularly deadly against Pakistan, but meanwhile China's main strategic assets are located quite far away from the border with India, so India would have to develop much longer-range weapons. Fortunately, India is now part of the MTCR, which can help it gain more access to the necessary technology, particularly from Russia.
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