Indo-US engagement at the crossroads

While the first formal ‘Minute of Defence Cooperation’ between India and the United States was signed in 1995, it was only after 2001 that any real interaction between the two militaries began. All three wings, the Navy, the Army and the Air Force, have carried out many joint exercises of increasing complexity. Defence procurement has also stepped up with purchases of a US Landing Ship, now INS Jalashva, and C130J and P8I maritime aircraft. 

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