In the combat sequence of the Indian Air Force, both American-made C-17 strategic transport aircraft and Russian-made Il-76 transport aircraft are equipped. Judging from the current countries in the world that have strategic transport aircraft, it is still very rare to be equipped with transport planes made by the United States and Russia at the same time, which is also because India has long been determined by the way of survival between the United States and Russia, and at the same time, it is also the extremely chaotic formation of India's weapons and equipment. According to the information disclosed by the media, on April 19, India dispatched two types of fighters at the same time to the Philippines to carry out the export delivery of Brahms cruise missiles, and during this operation, India's C-17 strategic transport aircraft and Il-76 strategic transport aircraft need to complete the crossing of the South China Sea. While jumping up and down, India is seeking the export of weapons and equipment, and the delivery of Brahms anti-ship missiles to the Philippines is to borrow the Philippines' hand to point the sword at China, of course, this is also in line with the Indo-Pacific strategy of the United States.
About two years ago, the Philippines signed a $375 million contract with India to provide the Philippines with three Brahms supersonic cruise missile systems, making the Philippines the only overseas user of the Brahms cruise missiles. It is reported that on the 19th, the Indian side has sent the first batch of missiles and missile launchers to the Philippines, and the Philippine Marine Corps will conduct relevant training to complete the launch of the Brahms cruise missile. At the same time that Indian military planes crossed the South China Sea to deliver missiles to the Philippines, the Philippines also revealed that the PLA's 7 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were approaching the Philippines to carry out reconnaissance operations. The Wuzhan 7 UAV is a high-altitude long-endurance reconnaissance drone.
According to the information released by the Philippines, the Wuzhan 7 drone that arrived in the airspace near Subic was only about 26 nautical miles away from the Philippines, indicating that the PLA drone had carried out a close-to-face deterrence. The non-detection 7 UAV does not have any attack capabilities, but only has the ability to search for targets in the air with a long endurance, and now when the 7-drone is dispatched in a high-profile manner, the F/A-50 light fighter of the Philippine Air Force is also unable to accompany or intercept it, and can only watch the PLA military aircraft carry out normal operations, and the operation of the non-detection 7 can also provide coordinates for the future action of the Dongfeng missile.
The PLA has a large number of Dongfeng ballistic missiles in the combat sequence, including the Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missile, but the war research believes that with the Philippine air defense capability, the Dongfeng-17 hypersonic missile is not necessary to shoot at all. The PLA is already capable of posing a threat to a large number of important targets in the Philippines with conventional ballistic missiles, including the Brahms cruise missile, which may also be deployed in the future. Recently, India has been constantly boasting about the Brahms cruise missile, and at the same time, India wants to use the Su-30 heavy fighter jet to carry this missile to point the sword at China. At present, the PLA's Type 055 10,000-ton missile destroyer and 052D missile destroyer all possess very strong regional air defense combat capabilities, and it is not possible for a few Indian missiles to penetrate the defense to pose a threat.
Although the Brahms cruise missile has been cooperated by Russia in the production and manufacturing process, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Brahms cruise missile is relatively limited, and in addition, it is produced and assembled by India itself, and India's technological level and the unreliability of India's manufacturing are very likely to cause the combat effectiveness of the Brahms cruise missile to decline. Text/Iris