Overview

• Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy met with BrahMos Aerospace officials on June 18 to discuss plans for increased manufacturing capacity in Hyderabad.
• The state government committed to expedite infrastructure development, land allocation and regulatory approvals to facilitate the expansion.
• Officials explored establishing a defence industrial corridor between Hyderabad and Bengaluru to attract further investment to the region.
• BrahMos Aerospace, a joint venture of DRDO and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya, produces supersonic cruise missiles with land-to-land, land-to-ship and ship-to-land variants.
• India and Russia are reported to be in talks to develop an advanced BrahMos variant.