India holds talks to export Brahmos cruise missiles
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
New Delhi, Jan. 5, IRNA
India-Antony-Brahmos
India's Defence Minister, A K Antony Friday said India is holding talks with "some countries" for exporting the Brahmos supersonic cruise missile with a range of 300 km.
"Talks are going on with some countries," he told reporters on the aircraft carrier INS Viraat after spending over 17 hours on board, somewhere in the Arabian Sea, it as part of his maiden "day at sea", a PTI report said here.
However, Antony did not name these countries.
His comments came in the wake of reports that countries like Malaysia, Chile, South Africa and Kuwait have evinced interest in procuring BrahMos missiles, developed by BrahMos Aerospace, an Indo- Russian joint venture.
The navy is getting a two aircraft carriers, more submarines, landing ships, helicopters and missiles within the next few years to "modernize the force to the maximum", he said.
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