New Delhi: India and the US concluded a defence industrial road map for defence industrial cooperation. It is aimed to bring fast-track technology tie-up and co-production of military platforms such as air combat and land systems.
This move has come up in the wake of China’s increasingly aggressive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region.
The new framework for co-operation was finalised during talks between Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his visiting American counterpart Lloyd Austin two weeks ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington.
The US defence secretary said the US-India cooperation matters “because we all face a rapidly changing world”.
After observing bullying and coercion from the People’s Republic of China and Russian aggression against Ukraine that seek to redraw borders and threaten national sovereignty, the Pentagon said the initiative aims to change the “paradigm” for cooperation between the US and Indian defence sectors, including the implementation of a set of specific proposals that could provide India access to cutting-edge technologies and support its defence modernisation plans.
In a statement, the defence ministry said both sides will identify opportunities for the co-development of new technologies and the co-production of existing and new systems besides facilitating increasing collaboration between defence start-up ecosystems of the two countries.
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