India And US Move Towards Collaborative Defence Agreements

Last updated on April 14th, 2022 at 04:05 am

India and US have strong plans to enter into strategic defense investments. Their areas of investment will comprise underwater domains to space technological development too. The decision has come through in the ongoing two-plus-two dialogue amongst Indian and American administration.

Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has stressed enough on the need for co-development and co-production between India and the US on high-tech military systems during this dialogue. It is post these discussions that India and the US have now firmed up plans to “revitalize” the Defence Technology and Trade Initiative (DTTI) that was launched in 2012. This who initiative fell off and didn’t materialize largely because it failed to deliver the goods up until now.

Areas of interest and investment now includes situational awareness high up in space, deep underwater domain awareness, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, counter-drone technology, stepped-up military engagements, exercises and logistics in between as well.

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The new vision of India is to transform a buyer seller relationship as defined in DTTI to that of joint manufacture of advanced weapon systems. Towards this end, two DTTI projects specifically identified during the dialogue were counter-unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and an ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, targeting and reconnaissance) platform.

An initial packed made earlier this year of jointly developing air-launched unmanned aerial vehicles (ALUAVs) will graduate late towards enhancement through the introduction of AI (Artificial Intelligence) enabled drone swarms capable of being launched from aircraft to overwhelm an adversary’s air defence systems. Even as the MoU on “Space Situational Awareness” was concluded during the dialogue, the two countries also decided to conduct their inaugural Defence Space Dialogue as well as AI Dialogue this year to add to the existing Defence Cyber Dialogue. America and India are also going to collaborate into tactical warfare and elite Special Forces training.