India has signed a <\/span>$375-million contract with the <\/span>Philippines <\/span>for the supply of 24-30 <\/span>BrahMos <\/span>cruise missiles.<\/span><\/p>\n Click Here to read about it\u00a0<\/b><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In a hypothetical armed confrontation that involves warships of China attacking the Philippines, the Chinese ships would be detected at ranges beyond 500 km by the surveillance-and-guidance radar of the BrahMos battery.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It would alert the battery command post, which would automatically designate the most suitable launcher vehicles to take on specific targets.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n As the aggressor missile closed in, the command post would give the launch command at an appropriate moment.<\/span><\/p>\n Firstly, <\/b>this constitutes India\u2019s largest-ever weapons sale abroad.<\/span><\/p>\n Secondly,<\/b> it would help in attaining the target of $5 billion in defense exports by 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Furthermore, <\/b>It would elevate India\u2019s stature as a responsible regional superpower.<\/span><\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the article<\/span> \u2018Philippines to acquire BrahMos cruise missiles for $375 million\u2019 <\/b>published in<\/span>\u00a0Business Standard\u00a0<\/b>on<\/span> 29th January 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the news? India has signed a $375-million contract with the Philippines for the supply of 24-30 BrahMos cruise missiles. What are Brahmos Missiles? Click Here to read about it\u00a0 How would a Brahmos missile protect the Philippines from China? In a hypothetical armed confrontation that involves warships of China attacking the Philippines, the… Continue reading Philippines to acquire BrahMos cruise missiles for $375 million<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10503],"class_list":["post-165114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704944093},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What are Brahmos Missiles?<\/b><\/h5>\n
How would a Brahmos missile protect the Philippines from China?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What is the significance of this deal for India?<\/b><\/h5>\n