NEW DELHI: India and Singapore Tuesday determined to step up their defence cooperation, together with commencing co-development and co-production of army tools, in addition to prolong their settlement on joint army coaching (Military) for the following 5 years.
The sixth defence ministerial dialogue, led by Rajnath Singh and his counterpart Dr Ng Eng Hen right here, additionally agreed to reinforce defence-industry cooperation, together with exploring collaboration in area of interest domains reminiscent of automation and synthetic intelligence.
With an expansionist China flexing its muscle groups within the Indo-Pacific, India has been steadily upgrading defence ties with Asean international locations by means of common joint workout routines, army exchanges, and coaching programmes.
“The 2 ministers additionally determined to take ahead the cooperation in rising areas like cyber safety, whereas acknowledging the deep and long-standing bilateral defence relations based mostly on a shared outlook on regional peace, stability, and safety,” an official mentioned.
