As nations recalibrate their defence relationships in an era of shifting alliances, India is quietly positioning one of the world's fastest cruise missiles as a bridge between its own strategic ambitions and the security anxieties of partners across the Gulf, Africa, and Latin America. The BRICS Summit in New Delhi next month offers a rare convergence — a single gathering where many of India's most promising BrahMos prospects will sit at the same table. What unfolds there will not determine outcomes alone, but it may well determine which conversations accelerate and which stall, shaping the co