Analysis: India is expected to become a weapon exporter in India

(New Delhi) Analysts believe that India's selling supersonic cruise missile system to the Philippines is a good start of India's ambition to become a weapon exporter.Defense relationship between the country.

But whether India can eventually become one of the world's main weapon exporters will depend on whether the country's speed of promoting the defense manufacturing industry can match the speed of launching local products.

The Philippines and India have reached a military purchase agreement this month.Coastal defense capabilities.

The Philippine Minister of Defense Lorenzana said in Facebook on the 14th that according to the agreement, the missile system will be produced by Indo -Russia joint venture Bramos Aerospace Company.

Analysts pointed out that this weapon transaction is actually strategic, because the Philippines and India have fallen into territorial disputes with China.India and China's long -term existing border disputes broke out again in 2020, while the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam's Southeast Asian countries have raised objections to the sovereignty of China in the South China Sea.

The Straits Times reported that Swishi, a researcher at the Indian Provenant Research Foundation of India, said: "The Philippines and India are sending signals to China to China, which is in line with India's defense diplomacy."

Indian National Defense Minister Singh announced last year that India is preparing to supply various types of missile systems, light fighters, helicopters, warships and electronic combat systems to the coastal countries, including Southeast Asian countries including Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, which willIt is a key area for Indian weapons exports.

It is understood that India is negotiating with Indonesia and Vietnam to negotiate the military purchase case of the Bramos missile system.According to media reports, Malaysia intends to purchase light fighters in India.

But analysts said that India needs to make more efforts to become one of the world's main weapon exporters.Zuji said: "The problem is that export weapons must have intellectual property first, but India has not created the kind of industry -based industry.""He said:" India needs to have a more dynamic design and development system and the production industry to achieve its goals, but at this stage, India is far from reaching this level. "