RAS question
BrahMos missile's name is derived from:
Correct answer: (B) Rivers Brahmaputra (India) and Moskva (Russia).
The name BrahMos is derived from the Brahmaputra river of India and the Moskva river of Russia.
Explanation
BrahMos is not a religious or project-code name; it marks the India-Russia partnership behind the missile system. The official BrahMos Aerospace account says the acronym represents the two nations through the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers. This reflects the institutional background: BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture formed in 1998 between India's Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia's NPO Mashinostroyenia. BrahMos Aerospace also gives the shareholding split as 50.5% from the Indian side and 49.5% from the Russian side. So the name itself is a compact signal of the missile programme's bilateral origin.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) Project Brahma is not the source of the name, and no such project exists in this context.
- (C) BrahMos is linked to the Brahmaputra and Moskva rivers, not to the Hindu god Brahma.
- (D) The name does not come from any Brahmin missile system; there is no such missile system in this context, and BrahMos Aerospace gives the river-based derivation.
Concept
This tests India's defence technology collaborations, especially joint ventures behind major missile systems. RAS repeats such facts because names, institutions and partner countries often appear together in Science and Technology questions.