Lucknow, Oct. 17 -- Defence minister Rajnath Singh and chief minister Yogi Adityanath will flag off the first batch of BrahMos missiles manufactured at the BrahMos Aerospace unit in Lucknow's Sarojini Nagar on Saturday. The Lucknow BrahMos unit is the first facility in the Uttar Pradesh Defence Corridor where the entire process, from missile system manufacturing to final testing, is carried out indigenously.

Singh reached Lucknow on Friday on a three-day visit.

BrahMos Aerospace, the manufacturer of the supersonic missile system, has successfully produced the first batch of the missile system from its new Integration and Test Facility in the state capital.

This state-of-the-art unit became fully operational after its inauguration on Ma...