**Report: India's hypersonic ship-killer, the LR-AShM, is being lined up for induction between 2027 and 2029, reports say.**

The DRDO missile is built for the Indian Navy's coastal batteries and can hit both static and moving ships.

**Key facts**
• Range: about 1,500 km
• Speed: starts near Mach 10 and averages Mach 5 with multiple skips, DRDO says
• Flies low and manoeuvres, so enemy ship and ground radars cannot track it for most of its flight
• Two-stage solid rocket motor, then an unpowered glide onto the target
• Phase-II flight trial was done off the Odisha coast in May, with a few more tests due before induction

**At Mach 5, 1,500 km takes about 15 minutes.**