The Defence Partnership between the UK and India is more important than ever 🇬🇧🇮🇳
— Rt Hon Grant Shapps MP (@grantshapps) January 11, 2024
That’s why today, our two great nations have signed historic agreements to:
✅ Increase joint exercises
✅ Deepen research partnerships
✅ Send our Carrier Strike Group to India in 2025 pic.twitter.com/d15T9YbtAL
Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 02:49pm on 11 Jan 2024,Thursday India Global
India and the United Kingdom solidified their defense collaboration during the successful two-day visit of Defense Minister Rajnath Singh to the UK. The visit resulted in a strengthened partnership, marked by a candid exchange program and the announcement of the UK Navy's HMS Shepherd's deployment in the Indian Ocean. UK Secretary of State for Defence, Grant Shapps, expressed the significance of the defense partnership, emphasizing historic agreements in a video message posted on X. These include plans to increase joint exercises, deepen research partnerships, and notably, send the UK's Carrier Strike Group to India in 2025. Shapps underscored the crucial nature of this collaboration, emphasizing its heightened importance in current times. [Video Courtesy: @grantshapps/X ]
