KOLKATA India and the United States have agreed on a road map to further strengthen their defence industrial partnership, including by fast-tracking cooperation and co-production in areas such as air combat and land mobility systems, reconnaissance, munitions and the undersea domain.
This was announced by the US Department of Defence (DOD) on Monday following a bilateral meeting between India’s Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his American counterpart, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin, who was in New Delhi on a two-day visit.
According to an Indian government statement, the US-India Defence Industrial Cooperation road map will guide both countries in the next few years” as they explore ways to build resilient supply chains and facilitate increased collaboration between the Indian and American defence start-up ecosystems.
The bilateral meeting comes amid China's aggressive posturing in the Indo-Pacific region, an issue which featured at the recent Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, as well as in the discussions in New Delhi.
Speaking at the dialogue, Mr Austin said the US was "doubling down on our alliances and our partnerships" in the Indo-Pacific to "deter aggression and to deepen the rules and norms that promote prosperity and prevent conflict".
This story is from the June 06, 2023 edition of The Straits Times.
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