Friendly Asia-Pac Country To Be First International Customer Of Brahmos Missile

A country in the Asian-Pacific Region will become the first international customer of the Russian-Indian BrahMos cruise missiles.

The export contract will be signed by the end of 2016, BrahMos Aerospace spokesman Praveen Pathak told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.

“It’s too early to be specific since negotiations are continuing, but we plan that by the end this year there will be one solid contract,” Pathak said.

He added that the Asian-Pacific nation would be a friendly nation that neither Russia nor India has any conflicts with.

Pathak said further that first trials of the Russian-Indian BrahMos cruise missiles on Russian Su-30 Flanker C multirole fighter jets will begin in one or two months and end in November-December 2016.

"Ground tests of the aircraft missile have ended, now we're planning to place it on an Su-30 and in the next month or two there will be trial launches," Pathak said.

He said that a life-sized rocket mock-up would be initially used in the tests, and then proceed with an actual BrahMos cruise missile.

“We hope that all of the tests will be complete in November-December,” Pathak added.