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India must increase its space presence in imaging satellites while also increasing its surveillance persistence by inducting a sufficient number of HALE unmanned platforms

Believing its own rhetoric of major power status, and hence China’s peer competitor, India thought it could, like the US, combat, compete and cooperate on its own terms with China. But is that true?

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According to an Indian Embassy fact sheet, India-US defense cooperation is based on the New Framework for India-US Defence Cooperation, which was renewed for a period of ten years in 2015.

A major India-US bilateral defence collaboration is in the works for India to make sophisticated modern defence equipment

Foreign policy refuses to yield to the U.S. political calendar, and so, with Election Day looming in the U.S., this week the secretaries of defense and state escaped the Beltway for a whirlwind tour of the Indo-Pacific. Their trip included stops at three key island states that straddle the world’s superhighways of maritime trade: the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia.

The American platforms at the exercise Cope India that started off Kalaikunda will also include a fleet of F-15 E fighter jets, C-130 and C-17 transport aircraft.

Weeks after it shot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon, the US military held a brief conversation with the Indian side and some

Gen Kenneth S Wilsbach, commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, said the US side held the interaction behind closed doors with most of the air chiefs of the region.

Gen Kenneth S Wilsbach, commander of the US Pacific Air Forces, said the US side held the interaction behind closed doors with most of the air chiefs of the region