India will supply BrahMos missiles to the Philippines under a $374.96M deal.
India joined the elite club of missile exporters on Friday with the Philippines signing a $374.96 (Rs 2,770 crore) million deal. It will procure BrahMos shore-based anti-ship variant supersonic cruise missiles.
Earlier, the Philippines signed a pact with BrahMos Aerospace Pvt ltd for the supply of three batteries of 290 kilometers range BrahMos missile system for its naval force to ramp up its prowess to counter China’s belligerent behavior in the South China Sea.
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The country has territorial disputes with Beijing in the region as China claims sovereignty over the sea that has a huge source of hydrocarbons and the first-ever contract to export BrahMos missiles, which India has developed jointly with Russia, will pave the way for more such deals.
BrahMos Aerospace is the Joint Venture between India’s DRDO and Russia’s NPOM and the shore-based anti-ship system of the BrahMos is a deadly conventional weapon that flies almost three times the speed of sound.
