Public sentiment about the BrahMos missile is a blend of strong national pride in India's advancements in missile technology and skepticism about the effectiveness and origin of these developments. While many express admiration for figures like Dr. Tessy Thomas and celebrate the missile's capabilities, others highlight dependence on Russian technology and raise concerns about military readiness and the actual demand for BrahMos internationally.

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Why dont people understand that we dont have an iron dome like Israel. Critical Infrastructure is protected by Air defense systems but not all of Pakistan. Even in the presence of air defense systems these cruise missiles are difficult to counter because of the reasons the OP mentioned.

Axemaze

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Afaik, the PH Brahmos battery consists of just two mobile launchers, each with two ready-to-fire missiles. So for the 3 batteries we ordered, that gives us a total of six launchers and twelve ready-to-fire missiles.

That's hardly enough to overwhelm the layered defenses of a Chinese carrier strike group. But maybe the AFP has a different strategy in mind, like shoot, scoot, and PRAY to the heavens one missile gets through. Pinoys, after all, are very religious people lol. 

I hope the AFP isn’t just paying lip service when it says it plans to order 9 more Brahmos batteries. We urgently need this system to help deter Chinese aggression in Recto Bank. It’s about time we tap into the energy reserves of the WPS to lower energy costs and attract more investors.

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The Philippines is set to receive its second batch of BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles from India as part of a $375 million deal signed in 2022 to enhance coastal defense capabilities. This delivery is part of the country's military modernization efforts amid escalating tensions with China over the South China Sea. The first batch was received in April 2024. Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro criticized recent Chinese espionage accusations against three Filipinos, calling them implausible and accusing China of stoking xenophobia. The BrahMos missile, capable of being launched from land, sea, or submarine, has a range of 290 km.

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What are the chances that their missiles are so bad at missiling that instead of hitting a Pak target they missed... and they missed a whole country and were mistakenly going towards the Afghans.

I wouldn't be surprised... Also didn't one of the brahmos missile fall in Pak during testing a few years back?

This has happened with the Tomahawk cruise missile several times, sometimes due to a tech error or due to ECM. I would still consider the Brahmos an effective weapon that Pakistan needs to counter or match.

heinz_goodaryan

Didn’t this happen before ? The missle landed in Pakistan and they apologized

goldtank123

Taliban confirmed no missile attacked in Afghanistan

Level_Examination_24

[source](https://youtu.be/1kTbX8vHcxQ?si=Wc-mdS61GM_TJKRy) Time stamp &gt; 53:40

alishbahahmad7

If the missile were to hit Afghanistan, would Pakistan be held responsible at all? since it flew over our airspace afterall. Although someone said per Taliban, it didn't hit Afghanistan

SaadZarif

A Brahmos has the range of 450km. While the distance from India to Afghanistan is 1026 km

ProfessionalUse6752

&gt; in a significant change to defence posture in the region

This phrase does not appear anywhere in the article. Editorializing titles is generally frowned on.

teethgrindingache

I forget, does Brahmos have a sub launched version, or at least one in the works?

AnswerLopsided2361

America has far more advanced military equipment deployed in Korea and Japan, and has conducted numerous military drills with countries in that region as well. So why is BrahMos missile a significant change to anything? The Indians think the BrahMos is a big deal, but compared to American weapons, who cares?

That_Shape_1094

ScoMoTrudeauApricot

Indians are proud of Brahmos because it’s a domestic supersonic (bordering hypersonic) missile that outperforms everything that Pakistan has. Apparently due to its domestic nature it’s a pride thing that proves that India has the expertise to build such Ashms. 

Downsides include: it’s massive (modified flankers can only carry 1), unreliable and inaccurate.

kazakov166

Your friend is DEAD wrong. 

"BrahMos missile is the world's deadliest missile in service now"
Since it just says "missile" and not "cruise missile", I could 20 different systems that can be considered more "deadly". From SRBM-ICBM. 

"it could not be stopped by any air defense system" - he couldn't be more wrong.
 SM-2, SM-6, and ESSM (all part of the AEGIS system) regularly intercepts GQM 163A Coyote. Which is a highly maneuverable Mach 4 Supersonic cruise missile target. Brahmos can definitely be intercepted, sure it'll be more difficult to do so compared to an older block of Harpoon, but it is no where near being immune to air defense. 

"it has no similar comparable counterparts in countries like USA and China's inventory." US is more focused on Low Observable ASHM's and ALCM's such as JASSM and LRASM. 

China on the other hand does have missile (YJ-12, CJ/DF-100, etc) that is comparable to brahmos.

OP, your first mistake was listening to an Indian about something that sounds good about India. Indians are by and large, super patriotic. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it makes them very susceptible to both hyperbole and propaganda.

BrahMos is an interesting weapon, especially for the Indians to have  developed (in concert with Russia), but it's not exactly groundbreaking.

IlluminatedPickle

China have anti ship ballistic missiles that fly faster and further.

Cidician

BrahMos is basically p-800 oinks but faster. As an anti-ship sea skimmer its a viable product (provided its targeting and electronics works). As a land target its a waste to pay for both a booster and ramjet for 300kg over 500km, just use normal solid rocket missiles instead.

Most countries dont concentrate on the speed of the missile past a certain point and instead focuses on electronics and targeting to make sure they hit what they are suppose to hit, especially if its a moving target. 

In terms of ramjet technology, the way forward seems to be integrated booster/jet system. China has YJ-12, Europeans have Meteor. In that regard BrahMos is behind.

BornAgainJasonBourne

You gotta take a sackful of salt when listening to Indians boast about themselves. Their movies should be a clear indicator of this.

kz8816

Brah, mostly I think it's just hyperbole.

Cornflake0305

I feel like the level of discussion is shallow in the comment section. We cant just look at if its good or bad by comparing Brahmos with every missile. For example, think about Apache and LCH made by India. Apache is a better attack chopper any-day anytime. But LCH performs its job better at high altitude. The Indian Airforce had to move Apache out of Ladakh because it struggled with altitude and did crash. Whereas LCH performs well because it was designed for high altitude warfare.  
Similarly, coming back to Brahmos, if you consider different roles and purposes, its an interesting missile because it gives you a range of over 500km according to some source and has a speed of mach 3. The most likely use for India here is protecting Malacca straight and on the west front putting a naval blockade on Pakistan at Karachi. Based on the range and speed. One missile would take less than 12 mins to reach its target. The missile is highly accurate and at terminal stage follows a sea skimming trajectory. It also makes a S manoeuvre at terminal stage. So India will likely use these off its Andaman Islands and Gujarat coasts. It can be launched from ground which appears to be the safest one as quantity isnt a problem there. Air launched version gives a capability but only one can be carried per sukhoi 30 and is a modified one with less range so doesnt make for a good idea. And as for sea launch version, I dont find it a logical reason to attack another ship using anti ship missile from your ship as you are equally on a threat radar of being sunk then hence it may be used only for defence purpose from a ship to retaliate against any first attack. Given the use case, it is a good missile as it covers most of bay of bengal and arabian sea. India is not a white water navy so it wont need to travel all the way to Taiwan to attack Chinese ships. So Brahmos is a good deterrent against an offensive ship approaching towards an entity of strategic interest. Its definitely a capable missile and will hit its target if fired in some bunch. For Eg when one had misfired towards pakistan, they really turned helpless and didnt really had anything to counter it (I do consider china is not pakistan). The missile at the end just fell to ground. Luckily it did not have any warhead in it. S maneuver at terminal stage is definitly one highly non-predictive move and will be difficult for anti missile tech to intercept.  
As for US having similar missiles, they dont have one because its not needed. The reason why US might be using such missiles will be in offensive roles as they are mostly there protecting things like Taiwan or middle east etc when they are far away from their own shores. A better tool than supersonic cruise missile is a stealth aircraft, which can literally fly close to the target bomb it and return without getting noticed. US had the tech to build one if needed. In terms of accuracy surely Brahmos is better as Indian missiles are good with accuracy but consider that with such missiles accuracy is not a factor, reaching the target is. Brahmos is not hitting a dart board somewhere, its built to hit ships.

Lost_Meaning_2667

Brahmos isnt some wanderwuffen weapon, its just different approach to what west AShM prefer ( Anti Ship Missile ) 

West approach was to fly low and slow, avoid detection to avoid self defense suite of ship where as soviet approach was to fly fast to dodge a ships self defenses 

Both of them have their own pros and cons 

For more info watch this documentary 

https://youtu.be/ZhY-QLPt0f0?feature=shared

BrahMos is fastest Cruise Missile, made by joint venture between India and Russia. While India has the accountability of producing it on Indian land.

Yes brahmos cis cruise missile and guided by Indian gps and globass. Also it can go up and down with mach 3.0 speed which currently in world no other missiles has. Faster to intercept and it can go up and down move anywhere

traderhp

ICBMs have been around for decades. They are hypersonic, unstoppable, and deadly. And stealthy when launched from a submarine.

Hypersonic air-launched missiles offer no strategic advantage over existing ICBMs. Fire your Brahmos once, and your 10 major cities are toast 30 minutes later.

Nibb31

&gt; could not be stopped by any air defense system in service due to its supersonic speed 

So first off, that is **super** sonic, not hypersonic.  There is a BrahMos II that is boosted to Mach7-8 (hypersonic region) but the normal version is max Mach 3 and pretty sure it's not hitting Mach 3 in level flight at low altitude.  The reported mach 3 was in a dive from an at-altitude release.  For things that are supersonic, many air defense systems have a decent chance of interception, including the latest S300/400 and pretty much every medium or theatre western system.  Fighters have the same speed and in many cases more maneuverability but they are vulnerable to all of these systems.  

It's also really really heavy for the payload and range.  An Su-30 can only carry one and that is with undercarriage modifications.

tujuggernaut

Bear in mind American military strategy contrary to popular chatter is Not centered on Defense, but rather Revenge   The administrators and decision makers, have hardware and well strategized retaliation worked out, they really don't care about the masses of the general population.  
So i that case unless india had 10,000 of them flawlessly functioning and 24/7 ready to launch simultaneously, and an omniscient awareness of americas entire military doings, it is no threat, or rather it is merely a threat and that is all.

Ansrallah

I say it is "Only" a threat on the sense of a threat which only has the substance of words, not in the sense of an eminent or pending potential harm.

Cruise and ballistic missiles are different. Bramhos is very low altitude sea skimming missile which is hard to intercept in ocean warfare

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