India keen to export Brahmos missile

The governments of India and Russia are eying export of their joint venture Brahmos cruise missile, project director A. Sivathanu Pillai has said.

Pillai said that the modalities of export to third countries are at a final stage of being worked out.

"When our missile is reaching a stage of attracting the foreign customers, many nations are interested in our products, the two governments (of India and Russia) have considered in detail what type of countries we should sell the system.

So we are in the final process of taking a decision with respect to certain countries for export of Brahmos missiles," Pillai said on the sidelines of a function in southern Coimbatore on Saturday (July 05).

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