India Ready To Sell BrahMos, but Exports Remain Hostage to Concerns Over CAATSA Even though the US Act does not have international endorsement, it has the ability to impose arbitrary embargoes and covers the Russian defence entity NPO Mashinostroyenia that forms the joint venture with Indiaâs DRDO. Full scale model of BrahMos air-launched cruise missile. Photo: brahmos.com World04/Mar/2021 Chandigarh: The ominous shadow of US sanctions on Russian defence entities looms ominously over Indiaâs plans to fast-track the export of BrahMos cruise missiles which are being locally manufactured in collaboration with Moscow. India is in advanced talks with several countries, especially the Philippines, Vietnam and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), amongst others like Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia and South Africa to sell them the BrahMos missile system. But its export remains hostage to unresolved concerns over the USâs Countering Americaâs Adversaries Through Sanctions or CAATSA, which has the potential to hobble all such sales via arbitrary embargoes.