India delivers first batch of Brahmos to Philippines

• This is the first export order for the supersonic cruise missile, a joint venture between India and Russia.
• In January 2022, Philippines concluded a $375-million deal with India for three batteries of shore-based, anti-ship variant of the BrahMos becoming the first export customer for the joint venture missile between India and Russia.

ABOUT BRAHMOS MISSILE SYSTEM

• The BrahMos is a supersonic cruise missile jointly developed by India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyeniya.
• It possesses the capability to be deployed from several platforms, including air, sea, and land.
• BrahMos is named after the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva (Russia).
• One special thing about this missile is that it can also change its path in the air, which makes it difficult to track.
• The speed of the missile handed over to the Philippines is 2.8 times more than the speed of sound.
• Each system of BrahMos has two missile launchers, a radar and a command and control center. Through this, two BrahMos missiles can be fired at the enemy within 10 seconds from submarine, ship, or aircraft.