Philippines formally accepts proposal to buy Brahmos Anti-Ship missile system from India

[Yasser76]

The letter is a pretty obvious fake, no country awards contracts like this in a simple one pager.

 

[Black Tornado]

The letter is a pretty obvious fake, no country awards contracts like this in a simple one pager.

That itself says “Notice of Award”, its a Notice.

Philippines approves purchase of BrahMos cruise missiles with India for its navy

BrahMos is the main weapon system of the Indian Navy warships and has been deployed on almost all of its surface platforms.BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound

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[Polestar 2]

Maybe US will sanction Philippine for buying India/Russia joint weapon to its allies. Philippine can only buy harpoon and Exocet anti ship missile.

 

[Yasser76]

That itself says “Notice of Award”, its a Notice.

Philippines approves purchase of BrahMos cruise missiles with India for its navy

BrahMos is the main weapon system of the Indian Navy warships and has been deployed on almost all of its surface platforms.BrahMos missile flies at a speed of 2.8 Mach or almost three times the speed of sound

www.livemint.com

It's fake news, the link you posted just copies the exact one pager so simply echos the original fake news. The letter is nowhere to be find on the official Phillipine Gov site, there has been no statement of sale and even Bramhos would be jumping up and down trumpeting this win and they are not. This is how desperate Indians have become, creating fake documents about non existent orders.

Also you would not get a defence minister ever writing such a note, it would be done via normal procurement channels, usually by a mid level civil servant.

 

[Cheepek]

It's fake news, the link you posted just copies the exact one pager so simply echos the original fake news. The letter is nowhere to be find on the official Phillipine Gov site, there has been no statement of sale and even Bramhos would be jumping up and down trumpeting this win and they are not. This is how desperate Indians have become, creating fake documents about non existent orders.

Also you would not get a defence minister ever writing such a note, it would be done via normal procurement channels, usually by a mid level civil servant.

 

[Zapper]

It's fake news, the link you posted just copies the exact one pager so simply echos the original fake news. The letter is nowhere to be find on the official Phillipine Gov site, there has been no statement of sale and even Bramhos would be jumping up and down trumpeting this win and they are not. This is how desperate Indians have become, creating fake documents about non existent orders.

Also you would not get a defence minister ever writing such a note, it would be done via normal procurement channels, usually by a mid level civil servant.

Oops this didn't age well

Officially announced by Sec.Delfin Lorenzana just 3 hours ago on his Facebook account. The same letter is included

https://www.facebook.com/dellorenzana

https://www.facebook.com/dellorenzana/posts/485209092963862

 

[Wood]

Great news for the Brahmos program

This bodes well for the future versions of the missile that are under development. They will also have a good possibility for international sales.

 

[Windjammer]

Indians habitually making more song and dance about yet to be tested in combat system than we ever did about selling a bigger project like the JF-17 to foreign customers... A weapon system which has even visited India without a visa.

 

[Zapper]

I once heard that Vietnam too was interested in BRAHMOS..... any update on that....

@Zapper , @Sudarshan , @INDIAPOSITIVE , @VkdIndian

Don’t know, I feel it will be a bit difficult one because Russia would want to pitch its Oniks.

Though Vietnam is pro-Russia, India is one among the primary allies of Vietnam.

As I mentioned is post#6 of this thread, 90% of the components in Brahmos are of Indian origin with ramjet being the only Russian component going in these missiles. Not to mention, Brahmos and it's variants are more advanced than their Oniks counterparts and India bet heavily on Brahmos with multiple versions, extended ranges, capability to launch and strike from land/sea/air and the upcoming hypersonic variant

Also, a lot of US & EU based companies moved their manufacturing bases from China to Vietnam. If the later wants to avoid CAATSA, they're better of going for the Brahmos which has more 90% Indian components over the Oniks which is 100% Russian. If US is concerned about the Russian ramjet, we can always replace with an indigenous alternative used is several other DRDO missiles

Hypersonic variant

Brahmos Mini

Brahmos NG on the Tejas

 

[SQ8]

It is a good system - will serve them well

 

[Vanguard One]

$375-million purchase marks breakthrough for Manila’s defenses in South China Sea, one analyst says.

An advanced sea-to-sea variant of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile is test-fired from the Visakhapatnam, an Indian navy ship, Jan. 11, 2022.

The Philippines has agreed to buy a U.S. $375-million package of BrahMos supersonic anti-ship missiles from India, tapping China’s main strategic rival in Asia to shore up its defenses in the disputed South China Sea.

The acquisition of the BrahMos, said to be the world’s fastest cruise missile, marks a breakthrough in efforts to upgrade the Philippines’ defense arsenal, according to an analyst.

On Friday, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana released a document via social media showing that Manila had approved the acquisition of the land-based missile system for the Philippine Navy from India’s BrahMos Aerospace Private Ltd.

“As head of procuring entity (HOPE), I recently signed the Notice of Award for the Philippine Navy Shore-Based Anti-Ship Missile Acquisition Project,” Lorenzana said on Facebook.

“Negotiated with the government of India, it includes the delivery of three batteries, training for operators and maintainers as well as the necessary Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) package.”

Earlier this week, India said it had successfully test-fired a naval variant of the BrahMos missile from an Indian Navy ship.

“Advanced sea to sea variant of BrahMos Supersonic Cruise missile was tested from INS Visakhapatnam today,” India’s Defense Research and Development Organization said in a tweet

“Missile hit the designated target ship precisely.”

The Coastal Defense Regiment of the Philippine Marines is the unit that will use the land-based variant of the BrahMos PJ-10 missile, produced through a joint venture between India and Russia. The name BrahMos comes from fusing the names of the Brahmaputra and Moscow rivers in India and Russia, respectively.

For India, which has a serious border dispute in its northeast with China, this is the first export order for BrahMos.

As Southeast analyst Derek Grossman said via Twitter: “China won’t be pleased!”

“It’s official, the Philippines is getting India’s BrahMos,” said the senior defense analyst at the RAND Corp., a U.S. think-tank.

A soldier salutes from a truck transporting a BrahMos missile system during India’s Republic Day parade in New Delhi, Jan. 26, 2021. [AFP]

India is only the second new entrant into the Southeast Asia supersonic anti-ship missile game after Russia, said another regional analyst, Collin Koh.

As for the Philippines, it becomes only the third Southeast Asian country after Indonesia and Vietnam to boast an anti-ship supersonic cruise-missile capability, he added.

For Manila “I’ll say it’s more than a breakthrough – it’s practically a leapfrog,” Koh said via Twitter.

Experts see the BrahMos acquisition as a value-for-money option for a developing country with limited cash for defense spending.

“It’s a cost-effective solution for the navy to have a sea-denial capability,” retired navy admiral Rommel Jude Ong, now with the Ateneo School of Government in Manila, told BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service, in March 2021, when the Philippines and India signed an initial agreement for the supply deal.

“The BrahMos, with a 290-km [180-mile] range, will provide a defensive buffer across a certain extent of the EEZ. It gives the navy a ‘mission-kill’ option in case of conflict,” he said at the time, referring to Manila’s exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea.

Back then, tensions were running high between Manila and Beijing over the presence within the EEZ of some 200 fishing boats believed to be manned by Chinese militias.

The diplomatic standoff went on for months, and although the situation has deescalated, Philippine officials say that unauthorized Chinese vessels remain a constant presence in Philippine-claimed waters of the South China Sea.

Manila, meanwhile, has been in a race to upgrade and modernize its navy, which until recently has had to make do with a fleet of legacy vessels, many of which date back to World War II.

Over the last three years, Manila has acquired its first missile-capable warships: a repurposed corvette from the South Korean navy, and two brand new South Korean-made frigates.

Last month, Manila signed on to acquire two new corvettes from South Korean maker Hyundai Heavy Industries for $554 million. Like the earlier corvette and frigates, these will have anti-ship, anti-submarine and anti-air warfare capabilities.

‘A beginning of India’s arms sales within ASEAN’

For India, the sale of the BrahMos to South China Sea claimant Philippines is a breakthrough in Southeast Asia, where China is a dominant economic force and also claims almost all of the South China Sea.

China’s claims include waters within the EEZs of Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam. While Indonesia does not regard itself as party to the South China Sea dispute, Beijing claims historic rights to parts of that sea overlapping Indonesia’s exclusive economic zone.

The Philippines’ BrahMos order could lead to more agreements with other Southeast Asian nations, allowing New Delhi to expand its influence in the region, Indian analysts said.

The deal is being “considered a beginning of India’s arms sales within the ASEAN member nations,” Aparaajita Pandey, assistant professor at the Institute of Public Policy at Amity University, told Indian news outlet AsiaNet.
New Delhi is also in talks with Vietnam and Indonesia for the possible sale of supersonic cruise missiles, reports said.

“[The] Philippines is potentially a geo-strategically important strategic partner in the region,” Pandey said. “The deal will lead to greater militarization of the region, which most definitely will be noticed by Beijing.”

Reported by BenarNews, an RFA-affiliated online news service.

Philippines to buy India's BrahMos supersonic missile

$375-million purchase marks breakthrough for Manila’s defenses in South China Sea, one analyst says.

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[faithfulguy]

Will US sanction Philippines since this is a violation of Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act? Philippines is buying a partial Russian weapon…

 

[imadul]

It is actually good. This is a challenge to China also in south china sea. This going to put India in severe hostile competition with china toe to toe.

 

[Indos]

 

[Tshering22]

It is actually good. This is a challenge to China also in south china sea. This going to put India in severe hostile competition with china toe to toe.

China has been supplying weapons to you guys for much longer than we started exporting anything to anyone around China. Besides, it's all business, isn't it?