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8ak - Indian Defence News
23 Apr 2010 8ak: Brahmand reports that the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has attracted many high-level delegations from several participating countries at the ongoing Malaysian Defence Services Asia 2010. The high profile potential customers included Malaysia, Vietnam, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Oman, Brunei and other African & Middle East countries.
The Malaysian interest in the cruise missile comes at a critical time as the navy is looking for a new weapon system to equip its Meko A100 Kedah class ships. The development is being taken as a positive development within the Indian establishment, which has been looking to export the state-or-the-art missile system. Earlier, *********** had reported that India was looking to export the BrahMos to Chile, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. Additional GM Marketing division, BrahMos, Praveen Pathak, had earlier told 8ak that to facilitate the export of the missile, both the countries had formed a supervisory council, which has drawn up a list of friendly countries, to whom the missile could be exported.
The Missile developed jointly by Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russias Mashinostroeyenia is considered to be the most sophisticated and fastest in its class around the globe. It can hit target up to 290-km and was initially developed for the Navy but the successful development of the missile resulted in developing an army version as well as an IAF version.
The integration process of the missile on to the Sukhoi-30s operated by the IAF is going on and it is expected to enter active IAF service by 2012. Naval sources also confirmed to 8ak that the two nations will jointly develop a hypersonic Mach 8 version of BrahMos in the future and talks were progressing in the right direction for the same. Mach 8 version if developed will fulfil an Indian Navy requirement of a formidable Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) LACM and also pose a deadly threat to enemy warships sporting elaborate air defence radar systems like the "AEGIS type" vessels under construction for the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
8ak - Indian Defence News
23 Apr 2010 8ak: Brahmand reports that the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile has attracted many high-level delegations from several participating countries at the ongoing Malaysian Defence Services Asia 2010. The high profile potential customers included Malaysia, Vietnam, South Africa, Indonesia, Thailand, Egypt, Oman, Brunei and other African & Middle East countries.
The Malaysian interest in the cruise missile comes at a critical time as the navy is looking for a new weapon system to equip its Meko A100 Kedah class ships. The development is being taken as a positive development within the Indian establishment, which has been looking to export the state-or-the-art missile system. Earlier, *********** had reported that India was looking to export the BrahMos to Chile, Brazil, South Africa and Indonesia. Additional GM Marketing division, BrahMos, Praveen Pathak, had earlier told 8ak that to facilitate the export of the missile, both the countries had formed a supervisory council, which has drawn up a list of friendly countries, to whom the missile could be exported.
The Missile developed jointly by Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russias Mashinostroeyenia is considered to be the most sophisticated and fastest in its class around the globe. It can hit target up to 290-km and was initially developed for the Navy but the successful development of the missile resulted in developing an army version as well as an IAF version.
The integration process of the missile on to the Sukhoi-30s operated by the IAF is going on and it is expected to enter active IAF service by 2012. Naval sources also confirmed to 8ak that the two nations will jointly develop a hypersonic Mach 8 version of BrahMos in the future and talks were progressing in the right direction for the same. Mach 8 version if developed will fulfil an Indian Navy requirement of a formidable Suppression of Enemy Air Defence (SEAD) LACM and also pose a deadly threat to enemy warships sporting elaborate air defence radar systems like the "AEGIS type" vessels under construction for the Chinese People Liberation Army Navy (PLAN).
