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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

BrahMos: On the launch pad

The formalities of the terms of India's sale of missile technology are cleared between Russia and India

After some anxious moments between traditional military allies, India and Russia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during his December 2005 visit to Moscow, finally signed the Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) pact on which rested the fate of India's rights to sell the technology of the BrahMos missile.

The multi-role supersonic cruise missile (MRCM), named after the rivers Brahmaputra and Moskva, is a joint-venture between the two countries. Implicit in the IPR pact was the agreement to export it to certain "friendly countries".

The authorities of the two countries would narrow the specific buyers in accordance with policies mutually laid down.

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