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India is now set to discuss the possible sale of the BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles to Vietnam, even as Indian, American and Japanese warships gear up to hold the Malabar exercise off Okinawa from June 10 in a move that has aready ruffled the feathers of a prickly China.Defence sources said talks on the export of the 290-km range BrahMos missile , which India has jointly developed with Russia, will take place when defence minister Manohar Parrikar visits Vietnam on June 5 and 6.Vietnam has been keen on acquiring the conventional precision-strike missiles, which fly almost three times the speed of sound at Mach 2.8, for several years now. But both India and Russia will have to agree to export them to a third country.With an eye firmly on China, India has been steadily cranking up its military cooperation with Vietnam as well as continuing with its plan for joint oil exploration in the contentious South China Sea.
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