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Hypersonic missiles likely in five years, says Sivathanu Pillai

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BrahMos Aerospace CEO gets Nayudamma award

A. Sivathanu Pillai

(TENALI: BrahMos Aerospace has embarked on developing the hypersonic missiles and it was likely to be launched in five years, CEO and Managing Director A. Sivathanu Pillai said here on Saturday.

After receiving the Y. Nayudamma Award 2007 here, he told mediapersons that currently the BrahMos was concentrating on developing capability for sub-sea missile launch after becoming the only country in the world to possess the technology to launch supersonic missiles from surface to surface and from ships to ships/land.

“Currently we are in the supersonic age as far as missile speed is concerned with 2.8 mock number and with the development of hypersonic missiles, that can travel five times the normal speed. This will be accomplished within next five years,” DRDO Chief Controller (R&D) Sivathanu Mr. Pillai said.

Dwelling on the great initiative and impetus provided to leather industry in India by the late Director General of CSIR Y. Nayudamma,, Mr. Pillai remarked that China has surpassed India in leather exports leaving us in the second place with a export business of $2.5 billion per year. “A new ‘leather technology vision’ has been worked out to promote the leather industry and put it on the top of the world with a target of $ 7 billion exports annually by 2010,” the award recipient added.

After paying floral tributes to Nayudamma, Mr. Pillai received the award from the KCP Chairman-cum-Managing Director V.L. Dutt in the presence of Nayudamma’s son R. Nayudamma and managing trustee P. Vishnumurthy.

The selection committee chairman R. Sampath presided over the function at which Mr. Pillai presented a power-point presentation of the country’s development in the field of science and technology.

He later delivered the 16th Dr.Y. Nayudamma memorial award lecture.

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