India to ink $375 million deal with Philippines for sale of BrahMos missiles today
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India will sign a $375 million deal with the Philippines today for the sale of BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile.
India will on Friday sign a $375 million deal with the Philippines for the sale of BrahMos supersonic anti-ship cruise missile to the island nation's navy.
The top defence brass of the Philippines would be present on the occasion while India would be represented by its Ambassador, government officials told India Today.
Last year, India and the Philippines signed a defence arrangement that would enable the export of defence equipment to Manila.
On January 15, the Philippines government approved BrahMos Aerospace’s proposal for the sale of shore-based anti-ship missile system.
"I recently signed the Notice of Award for the Philippine Navy shore-based anti-ship missile acquisition project. Negotiated with the Government of India, it includes the delivery of three batteries, training for operators and maintainers as well as the necessary Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) package,” Delfin Lorenzana, Secretary of National Defence of the Philippines, said in a Facebook post.
Brahmos is a supersonic missile for the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. This universal missile can be launched from ships, mobile launchers, submarines and aircraft. It has network-centric architecture, multiple trajectories, way-point capability and is capable of engaging any kind of land or naval targets beyond the horizon in a minimum deployment time.
Beyond Visual Range (BVR) air-to-air Missile Astra, anti-tank guided missile Nag and Brahmos weapon systems are also ready for exports, a list released by DRDO showed. Akash is a surface-to-air missile system which provides short-range air defence and can operate in autonomous or group mode of operation with a range of 3 to 25 km. The Astra missile is a BVR air-to-air that has been integrated with Indian Air Forces Su30 MKI. Other fighter jets will also be integrated with the Astra in the future.