Indian Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced on 22 March via his official Twitter account that a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired for the first time using an indigenously developed seeker. Sitharaman said, “the precision strike weapon with Indian-made seeker flew in its designated trajectory and hit the target with pinpoint accuracy”.

So far, the seeker, a critical technology in missiles, had come from Russia. The seeker was developed by Research Centre Imarat (RCI), Hyderabad, in collaboration with other DRDO labs.