After the trilateral summit between the United States, Japan and the Philippines, although the United States and Japan have not yet given substantial assistance to the Philippines, India has already gloated. Today's Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos is determined to confront China, and has taken an aggressive stance toward China in many areas, most notably allowing the U.S. military to expand its deployment in the Philippines. The U.S. military previously maintained five military bases, and as of February 2023, the U.S. military already has nine military bases in the Philippines. With the support of the deployment of the US military, the Philippines has promoted provocations in the South China Sea, and now that Manila has provoked China, the Philippines is determined to reinforce an old Philippine Navy landing ship stranded at Second Thomas Shoal.
A few days ago, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly congratulated the delivery of supersonic anti-ship missiles to the Philippines, and the Philippines obtained the "BrahMos" supersonic anti-ship missiles from India, and India has already gloated quite a rhythm. India delivered BrahMos missiles to the Philippines through C-17A large military transport aircraft. The Philippines purchased a shore-based version of the anti-ship missile system, judging from the information released by India, the Philippines has signed a purchase agreement as early as 2022, and the Philippines has rarely invested nearly $400 million in Indian weapons. With the purchase of the "BrahMos" by the Philippines, India's multifunctional cruise missile finally has foreign users, and India has already marketed the "BrahMos" supersonic missile to many countries.
The BrahMos has a range of 300 kilometers, and if the extended-range version is used, it has a strike capability of 500 kilometers, so once the Philippines deploys on Thitu Island and other islands and reefs, it can establish a large range of control in the South China Sea. At a time when the Philippines has frequently launched provocations, India's export of supersonic anti-ship missiles will give the Philippines more confidence, and India has also played a disgraceful role when the United States and Japan have supported the Philippines.
Recently, the Philippine media has publicly rendered the code name "Shoulder to Shoulder 2024" The United States and the Philippines joint military exercises, during which will strike a Chinese-built multi-purpose supply ship, but the Philippines has not announced which weapon to use to strike the supply ship, obviously after receiving India's missiles, the Philippines does not have the corresponding technology, so it is likely to use the existing mature weapons to strike, the US military also has a variety of weapons capable of striking surface combat ships, including the standard 6 multi-purpose missile and the M142 Seahorse high mobility rocket launcher. The joint military exercises between the United States and the Philippines are aimed at China, and India has provided anti-ship missiles to the Philippines before the "shoulder-to-shoulder" joint military exercises.
Judging from the information released by the Indian media, Indian Prime Minister Modi publicly congratulated him at a campaign rally, and Modi was very excited and extremely proud that India could export weapons and equipment. Although India has built a variety of weapons, including fighter jets, main battle tanks, missile destroyers, aircraft carriers and other heavy equipment, for a long time, very few weapons and equipment can be exported, so because of the export of "BrahMos" missiles, Indian Prime Minister Modi has already boasted of "political achievements", so there will be public congratulations. India has long regarded China as the biggest threat, and has adopted an aggressive posture against China in many fields, and now it has "added fuel to the fire" by providing anti-ship missiles to the Philippines.