NEW DELHI – India successfully tested on Sunday a new, more manoeuverable version of its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile that was jointly developed with Russia, an official said. The missile was fired from a moving warship in the Bay of Bengal, off India's eastern coast, and successfully hit its target, said a defence research official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media. The missile had a vertical lift off from the ship and was then manoeuvered to hit the target ship, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said. "It was a perfect hit and a perfect mission," PTI quoted the head of the BrahMos project, A. Sivathanu Pillai, as saying. Pillai said the test proved it was possible to change the direction of the missile at supersonic speeds before hitting the target.