Indian Ministry of Defence stated that test firing of the Brahmos missile was carried out to validate its service life extension. Statement indicated that BrahMos, the supersonic cruise missile was successfully test-fired from the Integrated Test Range (ITR) at Balasore, Odisha. The test-firing conducted from a Mobile Autonomous Launcher was part of service life extension programme for Indian Army under extreme weather condition.

According to the statement the precision strike missile followed the designated trajectory and the key components functioned perfectly.