India’s neighbouring country, China on Friday revealed the technical details of its supersonic cruise missile, HD-1 which is getting compared with India’s BrahMos missile. leading military experts to believe that China’s HD-1 has the potential to compete with the BrahMos missile jointly developed by India and Russia.
The company Guangdong Hongda Blasting, reveled that October-tested missile uses a solid-propellant ramjet that can reach targets 290 kilometres away at a speed of Mach 2.2 to 3.5. The missile weighs 2,200 kilograms, can fly as high as 15 kilometres and as low as 5-10 meters when sea skimming,
The company also claimed that the time taken to prepare for the launch of the missile is less than 5 minutes and less than 10 seconds to launch a second missile. It also described that the missile can accurately hit ground and sea targets. This missile can be launched from a land-based transport erection and launch vehicle (TEL). One TEL can be loaded with 6 missiles, which can be fired with a single push of a button.
Talking about India’s BrahMos missile can fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8 and has a range of 290 km which can be extended up to 400 km.