India’s defence exports have received a substantial boost with the recent sale of the naval variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile to the Philippines. Exporting this cruise missile, which is a joint venture (JV) between India and Russia with 70 per cent indigenous input from India, is a significant milestone for Indian defence manufacturing. It is also significant that this sale to a key Southeast Asian country comes amidst considerable strategic churn in the Indo-Pacific.
It is driven as much by a strategic rationale as it is by commercial gains with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) looming large in
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