India to supply BrahMos and Astra missiles to Indonesia, foreign ministry says

According to CNBC, India will supply its BrahMos supersonic cruise missile system and Astra air-to-air missiles to Indonesia, marking New Delhi’s third such agreement in the Indo-Pacific, an Indian foreign ministry spokesperson said Tuesday. The spokesperson said BrahMos and the air-to-air missiles are new areas of collaboration with Indonesia and that commercial terms have yet to be decided.

BrahMos Aerospace is a joint venture between India’s Defence Research and Development Organisation and Russia’s NPO Mashinostroyenia. Siemon Wezeman of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said buyers are particularly interested in the anti-ship version of BrahMos, which has a range of 300 kilometers, while Douglas Barrie of the International Institute for Strategic Studies said China’s YJ-12 is the only similar missile. The Philippines was the first buyer of BrahMos in 2022, and India’s defense secretary said in May that India had signed a deal to sell the missile to Vietnam, Reuters reported. Wezeman said India’s defense exports were worth 384 billion rupees ($4 billion) in the financial year ended March 2026, and SIPRI data shows India is not among the world’s top 25 arms exporters.