UK lawmakers say ‘limited’, ‘modest’ Indo-Pacific presence not enough to address China threat
UK's Defence Committee also called for greater support of Pacific nations and more clarity on the AUKUS submarine program.
US in ‘no win’ situation after Canada suggests India involved in assassination
The allegation and diplomatic reprisals have left the US to balance its relationship between a longtime Five Eyes ally and a rising Asian democracy that could be a check on China.
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New Chinese 10-Dash map sparks furor across Indo-Pacific: Vietnam, India, Philippines, Malaysia
The new map sparked sharp reactions from India, Nepal, Vietnam, Malaysia and Taiwan. The new document was released one week before the G-20 summit in India. President Xi Jinping was to attend but news reports now indicate he will not.
With India’s Moon triumph, lunar space race surges while UN struggles to set guardrails
"More than 100 lunar missions are planned for this decade alone, including many that are commercial," said Jessica West, of Canada's Project Ploughshares.
Malabar exercise brings India to the Pacific – along with Aussie F-35s, P-8s
The 10-day exercise brought Vice Adm. Dinesh Tripathi of the Indian Navy from India's western coast to Papua New Guinea, via the Solomon Islands and on to Sydney, a rare outing for the Indian admiral who had only visited the Pacific once in 2018.
All domain C2, data sharing key for Talisman Sabre: US 3-star
The new Combined Joint Network Operations Security Center (CJ-NOSC) "gives us the ability [to] collaborate along with our partners, which hasn't existed before," US Lt. Gen. Xavier Brunson, commander of Army I Corps, told Breaking Defense.
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India, France increase defense ties with new Rafale jet and submarine buys
As part of Modi’s visit to France, the two countries released a document entitled “Horizon 2047,” about the future collaboration between the two sides — including on defense issues.
India’s Modi to leave Washington with host of defense, tech agreements in his wake
“We intend to support India in the creation of logistics, repair, and maintenance infrastructure for aircraft and ships… that is obviously something that will be important as we work together to preserve a free and open Indo-Pacific,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder.
India signs Artemis Accords, tightening ties with US in space race with China
New Delhi's adherence to the accords represents a boost to US efforts to rally allies to help counter China's expansion of its own civil and military space activities, as well as Beijing's use of space as a soft-power tool on the global stage.
As Asian firms compete for Egyptian military aircraft deals, Cairo eyes local production
India and South Korea are competing on a light attack deal that analysts say could boost Egypt’s domestic production and knowledge base.
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‘Disruptive impact’: India’s military starts investing in quantum key distribution
“In the military, where you’re sending extremely sensitive classified data from one office to the next, you want to make sure that no one’s going to be able to break into and decrypt that,” Arthur Herman, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said. “Well, [quantum key distribution] is definitely a way in which to carry that out.”
Upstart Anduril Australia hopes to make 100s of large drone subs, ‘ITAR free,’ CEO says
CEO and chairman David Goodrich told Breaking Defense the $100 million USD effort to build three prototype Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) in three years is just the beginning of ambitious plans for the company.
Quad’s Indo-Pacific ship tracking ‘fusion’ will be expensive and hard
"It can be difficult to make these systems work in practice. I expect that it will take quite a bit of money, time and focus to get a system like this actually operating," said David Brewster, a senior fellow at Australian National University's National Security College.
US expands global arms export gap over No. 2 seller Russia: Report
Russian and Chinese international weapon sales are continuing on a downward trend from last year's report.