Lucknow, May 10 -- The state capital will enter the league of cities producing cruise missiles when the BrahMos production unit complex is inaugurated here on Sunday. Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will inaugurate the BrahMos missile complex with defence minister Rajnath Singh virtually joining the event from New Delhi.

Built at a cost of Rs.300 crore, the BrahMos production unit in Lucknow stands on 80 hectares of land provided free of cost by the Yogi Adityanath government.

Completed in three-and-a-half years, the facility will manufacture the world's fastest supersonic cruise missile-a joint India-Russia project with a range of 290 to 400 km and a top speed of Mach 2.8.

The BrahMos can be launched from land, sea, or air and uses a '...