Recently, there has been a lot of noise about the Philippines' purchase of India's "Brah Mos" cruise missile, on the one hand, the level of Indian manufacturing is well known, so that some people dare to buy his products, on the other hand, why did the Philippines buy Indian missiles at such a special moment? There are no countries around here to fight the Philippines, is it not to buy Indian missiles to help the United States and India deal with the mainland together? However, in the past few years, the relationship between the mainland and the Philippines was still quite good, and Philippine President Duterte also said that he did not agree with the South China Sea arbitration case, and the result of this arbitration case should be thrown into the trash can, fiercely brushing a wave of mainland good feelings, and at this time, he suddenly bought missiles, or bought India, which has contradictions with the mainland, which is obviously uneasy and kind.
It is reported that the Philippines this time in order to buy India's "BrahMos" Will cost 375 million US dollars, and the two sides have reached an agreement, India will provide the Philippines with about 100, may also be the reason why the Philippines wants to buy Indian missiles, 100 on average, it is more than 3 million US dollars a piece, for a cruise missile, this price is not very high, and India obviously also knows that its own missiles want to compete with other countries in performance is unrealistic, so it decided to start from the price to achieve the purpose of "small profits but quick sales". This aspect is precisely a major selling point of the mainland in the arms market, and it can be said that India wants to compete with the mainland for business.
Another point worth noting is that this missile is a land-based version, so it can be deployed on land in the Philippines, its range is about 300 kilometers, and the philippine mainland is the closest distance to Huangyan Island is 240 kilometers, so the Philippines can aim at the mainland's Huangyan Dao and strike at Huangyan Dao and its surroundings after purchasing this missile; and the 100 or so cruise missiles purchased only need to be partially aimed at Huangyan Dao. The remaining missiles can be deployed on the north and south sides of the Philippines, in the south can be a force deterrent to the Spratly Islands, in the north can be a strike on the Bashi Strait, while the Philippines has more confidence in replenishing several islands occupying the mainland, it can be said that the purpose is very obvious.
Don't look at the Philippines in the past few years and the mainland relations are very good, but that is all superficial relations, a few years ago because the United States will focus its attention on the Middle East, so the Asia-Pacific region did not pay much attention, coupled with the United States at that time the economy was in a state of decline, so the Philippines at this time the wall grass chose to be close to China, to obtain a lot of benefits, but for the occupation of the mainland 8 islands without mention.
At the time of the epidemic, the mainland also provided a large amount of medical material assistance to the Philippines to help the Philippines tide over the difficulties, and when the Philippines overcame the difficulties, it began to think carefully; the United States also withdrew its troops from Afghanistan at this time, focusing all its attention on the Asia-Pacific region, wanting to realize the strategy of returning to the Asia-Pacific region, blockade and encirclement of the mainland, so it is a variety of solicitations for the neighboring countries in the South China Sea, and the Philippines also wants the United States to give him some benefits at this time, and the United States has always been "who does things for me, Whoever is my good brother" has always been very generous to these "brothers", so the Philippines decided to help the United States deal with China. Therefore, the Philippines' current foreign policy has changed from attacking the United States to helping the United States to do things, uniting the United States to provoke the mainland in the South China Sea.
At the same time, although the island of Huangyan Dao is controlled by the mainland, it is far from the mainland and very close to the Philippines, so the Philippines is very interested in this island, and several times in a few years ago, it sent its own ships to occupy Huang'an Dao in the same way as occupying Ren'ai Reef, but it was also expelled by the mainland; and last year, the Philippines moved its mind, not only to make trouble on Huangyan Island, but also to "plant a flag and swear sovereignty" on Zhongye Island and deliver supplies to Ren'ai Reef several times In August last year, it withdrew the termination of the "Philippines-US Visiting Forces Agreement", which means that the US military can send its own troops to the Philippines again, coupled with the situation in the South China Sea that has become increasingly tense in recent years, the Philippines made such a move at this time, I think it is friend or foe, it is needless to say.
In particular, the stationing of the US troops has given the Philippines more confidence when it forcibly occupies Huangyan Dao, the US Navy has "charged into the front" for itself, and the cruise missiles deployed by the Philippines on land are responsible for providing fire support, coupled with their own material supplies in the rear, they are almost invincible; if the missiles bought by the Philippines are not used against China, I am afraid that even the Philippines itself will not believe it, after all, there are US troops stationed, who dares to move the Philippines so boldly?