CNN Politics reports that outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter was in Delhi in the second week of December in a last bid to boost relations with an ally that could prove crucial to U.S.-India defense relations. En route to New Delhi, Carter told reporters, "India and the United States...
Defense Alignment Between India and U.S. Accelerates
DefenseNews reports that the Obama administration has made strengthening ties with India a priority, and this has been highlighted by the focus Defense Secretary Ash Carter has had on the South Asian nation. Ashley Tellis, a former State Department official now with the Carnegie Endowment, calls the recent state visit...
U.S. and India to Provide Logistics Support to Each Other for Defense Purposes
During U.S. defense secretary Ashton Carter’s recent visit to India, in a joint press conference along with India's defense minister Manohar Parrikar it was agreed “in principle” to conclude a defense agreement that involves providing each other’s militaries with logistic support covering fuel, spares and repairs on a reimbursable or...
U.S. Updates Technology Transfer Policy with India
One of the results of the meetings between U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and India’s Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar earlier this month was that the U.S. has updated its policy on gas-turbine engine technology transfer to India to expand cooperation in production and design of sensitive jet engine components. Carter...
India Evinces Interest in ISTAR Aircraft
Airforce-technology.com reports that India has offered to buy two intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance – ISTAR – aircraft from Raytheon on a government-to-government basis. These planes use an active electronically scanned array radar which is able to increase the ground-detection capabilities of the air force by scanning targets at...
U.S. and India Moving Ahead on Joint Defense Projects
India and the United States have sealed two agreements, one to jointly develop protective gear for soldiers against biological and chemical warfare, and the other on building next-generation power sources for the battlefield, according to Reuters. Each of these projects have $1 million in funding shared equally by the two sides,...