INDIA AND US WILL FURTHER DEEPEN ALREADY EXPANSIVE DEFENCE TIES

India and the US on Friday reaffirmed their commitment to "deepen and diversify" their already expansive "major defence partnership" through expanded cooperation in new and emerging domains such as space and artificial intelligence (AI) as well as accelerated defence-industrial collaboration, which includes joint production of jet engines.

The joint statement after the Modi-Biden meeting also welcomed the completion of the US Congress's notification process and the commencement of commercial negotiations between GE Aerospace and Hindustan Aeronautics to jointly manufacture GE-414 jet engines in India - with 80% transfer of technology - for the indigenous Tejas Mark-2 fighters.

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