The Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) announced on Saturday, Feb. 18, that 21 personnel had completed training in India to operate and maintain a shore-based anti-ship missile system (SBASMS) that uses the BrahMos, the world's fastest supersonic missile.
Twenty-one Philippine Marine Corps personnel have recently completed a training in India where they obtained the skills to operate and maintain a shore-based anti-ship missile system for the integration of the world’s fastest supersonic missile in the world – the BrahMos missile – into its system, the PMC announced on Saturday, Feb. 18.Col.
“The induction of the BrahMos missile into the Philippine Marine Corps will strengthen your maritime capability and will also contribute to our collective maritime security within the region,” Kumar said. In January 2022, the Department of National Defense signed the contract for the procurement of the Indian-made BrahMos missiles as part of the Shore-Based Anti-Ship Missile Acquisition Project of the Philippine Navy worth $374,962,800 or around P18.9 billion.
The acquisition was conceptualized as early as 2017 and approved as part of the priority projects under the second horizon of the revised modernization program of the Armed Forces of the Philippines .
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