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Hurdles to BrahMos Export
When CEO and Managing Director of the Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace A. Sivathanu Pillai told reporters that fourteen countries have already expressed interest in buying different modifications of a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, But it will be interesting to see how BrahMos Aerospace will be able to convert interest into actual orders . Exporting BrahMos will not be easy route for the company, since it will be facing many hurdles in its path to taste success.
Cheaper Russian options
One of the biggest hurdles for BrahMos Aerospace to convert those interests into orders will be availability of cheaper Russian Built P-800 Oniks (Yakhont) anti-ship cruise missile, BrahMos is reportedly based on P-800 Oniks which has 300Km range and carries same range as the BrahMos. Russians have been having back door talks with many prospective customers of BrahMos to lure them to buy Russian Built P-800 Oniks, Even though BrahMos is technically more advance and incorporates stealth features, better accuracy, navigation and also features manoeuvrability at supersonic speed to hit moving targets making it only Supersonic missile with this feature in the world, also making it harder to intercept by current anti-missile systems. When Pillai informed that BrahMos cannot be intercepted in next 20 years recently in a public event, he was not bragging about the systems, but just mentioning technologically how BrahMos can defeat current generation of Anti Missile systems, but very same technological edge which makes BrahMos more potent missile over Yakhont but it also makes BrahMos more expensive than Yakhont, making it less affordable to many prospective customers.
Red Tape in Indias defence policies
India on other hand does not have clear Weapons export policy, leading to delays in clearance to even engage prospective customers and still requires clearance from multiple departments for weapon export to take place, and most of the cases are handled on case to case basis, which lead to further delays.
Indian order
Orders from all three main branches of Indias armed forces have lead to huge backlog of orders for BrahMos Aerospace to fulfil and continue development of specific newer variants on forces feedback is also leading to multiple orders for newer systems while keeping production line busy with new orders, it will take few more years to actually complete Indian orders before it can be exported and since Air force variant and Submarine Variant of BrahMos are yet to enter into production , BrahMos production line will be busy till end of this decade fulfilling only Indian orders . Lack of production line in Russia, means they will be production constraint while keeping up with Indian orders.
Russian reluctance
Even though BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russian Federations NPO Mashinostroeyenia, till now Russia has not inducted BrahMos in its armed forces and dont have specific requirements for BrahMos since they are happy with their current P-800 Oniks missiles and also they are inducting newer ships at much slower rate than India to consider induction of BrahMos in their forces.
Link - Hurdles to BrahMos Export | idrw.org
When CEO and Managing Director of the Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos Aerospace A. Sivathanu Pillai told reporters that fourteen countries have already expressed interest in buying different modifications of a BrahMos supersonic cruise missile, But it will be interesting to see how BrahMos Aerospace will be able to convert interest into actual orders . Exporting BrahMos will not be easy route for the company, since it will be facing many hurdles in its path to taste success.
Cheaper Russian options
One of the biggest hurdles for BrahMos Aerospace to convert those interests into orders will be availability of cheaper Russian Built P-800 Oniks (Yakhont) anti-ship cruise missile, BrahMos is reportedly based on P-800 Oniks which has 300Km range and carries same range as the BrahMos. Russians have been having back door talks with many prospective customers of BrahMos to lure them to buy Russian Built P-800 Oniks, Even though BrahMos is technically more advance and incorporates stealth features, better accuracy, navigation and also features manoeuvrability at supersonic speed to hit moving targets making it only Supersonic missile with this feature in the world, also making it harder to intercept by current anti-missile systems. When Pillai informed that BrahMos cannot be intercepted in next 20 years recently in a public event, he was not bragging about the systems, but just mentioning technologically how BrahMos can defeat current generation of Anti Missile systems, but very same technological edge which makes BrahMos more potent missile over Yakhont but it also makes BrahMos more expensive than Yakhont, making it less affordable to many prospective customers.
Red Tape in Indias defence policies
India on other hand does not have clear Weapons export policy, leading to delays in clearance to even engage prospective customers and still requires clearance from multiple departments for weapon export to take place, and most of the cases are handled on case to case basis, which lead to further delays.
Indian order
Orders from all three main branches of Indias armed forces have lead to huge backlog of orders for BrahMos Aerospace to fulfil and continue development of specific newer variants on forces feedback is also leading to multiple orders for newer systems while keeping production line busy with new orders, it will take few more years to actually complete Indian orders before it can be exported and since Air force variant and Submarine Variant of BrahMos are yet to enter into production , BrahMos production line will be busy till end of this decade fulfilling only Indian orders . Lack of production line in Russia, means they will be production constraint while keeping up with Indian orders.
Russian reluctance
Even though BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between Indias Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and Russian Federations NPO Mashinostroeyenia, till now Russia has not inducted BrahMos in its armed forces and dont have specific requirements for BrahMos since they are happy with their current P-800 Oniks missiles and also they are inducting newer ships at much slower rate than India to consider induction of BrahMos in their forces.
Link - Hurdles to BrahMos Export | idrw.org
