India has officially exported BrahMos missiles. Yesterday, January 15, the portal indiatimes.com He reported that the Ministry of Defense of the Philippines officially confirmed the signing of a contract worth $374.9 million.
A preliminary agreement for the supply of BrahMos missiles to the Philippines was signed in March last year.Now the parties have finalized the deal and revealed its details — the Philippines will receive missile systems in anti-ship modification.
Launch of the BrahMos cruise missile
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BrahMos is a joint product of the Indian Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO, Defense Research and Development Organization) and the Russian military Industrial corporation "Scientific and Production Association of Mechanical Engineering", which organized a joint venture BrahMos Aerospace in 1998. Under the name BrahMos, the company develops and produces supersonic rockets capable of reaching speeds of over 3000 km/h. The project is based on the Soviet development of the P-800 "Onyx" (more precisely, its export version "Yakhont"). Initially, BrahMos was developed as an anti-ship missile, but later its new versions were created that can hit ground and surface targets, starting from stationary and mobile launchers located on the ground, as well as submarines, ships and aircraft.
The developers call the air-launched BrahMos missiles "the fastest supersonic cruise missiles in the world." BrahMos ALCM weighs about 2.5 tons, has a warhead weighing about 300 kg and can hit targets at a distance of up to 290 km, developing a speed of up to 3500 km /h.
