India’s agreement with the US for important military purchases

According to the report of Fars News Agency International Group, India and the United States have announced progress in important military contracts and called the meeting of their foreign ministers on Friday as a growing partnership in facing geopolitical challenges in the region. .

According to news sources, “Anthony Blinken” Minister of Foreign Affairs US State Department and Defense Minister Lloyd Austin last Friday with Indian Foreign and Defense Ministers Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Rajnath Singh in New Delhi as part of the annual “2+2” dialogue, which focuses on the Indo-Pacific region. They met.

India’s defense minister said that India’s contract of more than three billion dollars for the purchase of 31 combat drones manufactured by “General Atomics” company is also under review. And India is waiting for the company to receive the permits from the US government for the next steps. Without referring to details, he added that Washington has also offered several combat vehicles. but New Delhi still maintains long-standing ties with Russia, which has frustrated the West amid the war in Ukraine.

In another development, neighboring China In a show of strength to its rivals, in a few days, Dar will hold a multinational exercise focusing on establishing maritime security. Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday that the Chinese armed forces In mid to late November, it will hold a joint military exercise with five countries located in Southeast Asia.

will be held, the armed forces of Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam will be present. The Chinese army has announced that these exercises will focus on anti-terrorism operations and maritime security.

India’s Ministry of Defense has also recently tested a short-range ballistic missile to be deployed in The border of this country with China and Pakistan. An Indian defense official said the country’s missile unit successfully test-fired a short-range surface-to-surface ballistic missile named Prali from Abdul Kalam Island off the coast of Odisha. This missile was made by the Defense Research and Development Organization of India.

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