India delivers the fourth BrahMos missile battery to Philippines

Giving a huge fillip to defence exports, India has sent the fourth ‘battery’ of land version of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to the Philippines today amidst growing tensions due to Chinese assertions in the South China Sea.

It is understood that three ‘batteries’ of BrahMos missiles have already been handed over with the fourth reaching Manila



today as part of the USD 375 million deal signed by the two allies in 2022. Each battery comprises four launchers with three 290 km range missiles with each launcher on a mobile platform for survivability of the conventional deterrent. Given the supersonic speed of the weapon, the missile is very difficult to intercept by land or ship-based Ballistic Missile Defence (BMDs) systems.