Singh is in the US on a four-day official visit to further boost the comprehensive global strategic partnership between the US and India.
Washington: India and the US look forward to working together and benefiting from each other’s experiences, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has said, as he visited a top American naval surface warfare facility in Maryland.
Singh is in the US on a four-day official visit to further boost the comprehensive global strategic partnership between the US and India.
“Visited the Naval Surface Warfare Centre at Carderock and witnessed the pathbreaking experiments at the facility,” Singh said in a post on X.
“India and the US look forward to work together and benefit from each other’s experiences,” he wrote after he visited the top American naval facility on Saturday.
Earlier during the visit, Singh met the US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin.
Austin praised the momentum behind the US-India relationship during the meeting with Singh.
He noted the countries’ increased cooperation on a range of defence issues, including efforts to strengthen critical supply chains and interoperability between their militaries.
“We share a vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific, and our defence cooperation continues to grow stronger and stronger,” Austin said.
“We’re expanding our defence industrial ties and working to co-produce more capabilities and strengthen supply chain resilience,” he said.
He said that the countries have increased operational cooperation across all domains and highlighted India’s participation in this summer’s Rim of the Pacific, a large-scale exercise led by the US Navy in Hawaii that brought together 29 partner nations.