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After successfully delivering the formidable
BRAHMOS Weapon Systems to the Indian Armed
Forces, BrahMos Aerospace charted yet another
glorious milestone by carving its global foot-
print in the year 2022. On January 28, 2022,
the JV entity signed a historic export contract
with the Republic of Philippines to deliver shore
based BRAHMOS anti-ship weapon systems to
the Armed Forces of Philippines.

“The landmark export contract for BRAHMOS is
a successful realization of our ‘Mind-to-Market’
strategy. As we get ready to deliver the world’s
deadliest and best tactical weapon to our first
foreign customer nation, we are also strongly
aspiring and hoping to achieve many more
breakthroughs on the exports front by signing
new orders for our weapon system,” says Atul
D Rane, Director General, BrahMos, DRDO and
CEO & MD of BrahMos Aerospace.

BRAHMOS - THE ULTIMATE The deployment of BRAHMOS’s ship-based
weapon complex along with its shore-based
weapon complex can strongly fortify and safe-
DETERRENT WEAPON FOR guard the maritime security and coastal defence
mechanisms of a nation. The powerful weapon
MODERN WARFARE along with its associated systems can ensure
real-time monitoring, detection and tracking
of potential targets in Exclusive Economic Zones
The power and influence of precision strike weapons in modern, (EEZs), and their swift engagement from beyond
highly intense conflict situations has increased manifold. The ability radar horizon ranges. As a ‘stand-off’ weapon,
of such weapons to knock down a target with deadly accuracy, BRAHMOS can thus become a net security pro-
speed and firepower has made them true “game-changers”. vider during regional conflict situations.
BRAHMOS – world’s most powerful tactical weapon owing to its
supersonic speed, high precision, lethal firepower, great versatility Design and development of more advanced
and operational maneuverability – has revolutionized modern war- BRAHMOS variants, especially the new
fare dynamics. The formidable missile has established its supremacy BRAHMOS-NG (next-gen) having smaller, lighter
as the “choicest deterrent system” of the 21st century. dimensions to equip a wider number of modern
military platforms on land, sea, sub-sea and
air, promises to accelerate the weapon’s export
The supersonic cruise missile, deployed with the Indian Armed Forces, potential manifold in near future.
has validated its formidability to neutralize high-value, heavily for-
tified ground and sea-based enemy targets from land, sea and air
platforms. Designed and developed by BrahMos Aerospace under
a high-end military technology sharing programme involving India’s
Defence Research & Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russia’s
NPOM, the multi-role BRAHMOS has been operationalized in land-
to-land, land-to-sea, sea-to-coast, coast-to-sea, air-to-land and
air-to-sea configurations.

By completing India’s ‘supersonic cruise missile triad’, BRAHMOS has
become a ‘force-multiplier’ asset to undertake joint, network-centric
warfare operations. BRAHMOS air-launched cruise missile (ALCM)
integrated on the Indian Air Force’s Sukhoi-30MKI fighter platform
has emerged as the most powerful conventional air-borne ‘stand-off’
weapon in terms of range, lethality and effectiveness. The anti-ship
and land-attack variants of the missile deployed on frontline Indian
naval warships have enormously widened India’s maritime outreach
and strike capability in littoral and high seas. The Indian Army has
become the only land force in the world in possession of a supersonic
cruise missile system.
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