India and the Netherlands elevated ties to a Strategic Partnership during Modi’s May 16th & 17th visit. The roadmap includes defense, maritime security, cyber, counterterrorism, critical tech, semiconductors, space, AI, and quantum cooperation.
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India and the Netherlands elevated ties to a Strategic Partnership during Modi’s May 16th & 17th visit. The roadmap includes defense, maritime security, cyber, counterterrorism, critical tech, semiconductors, space, AI, and quantum cooperation.
India & Vietnam held defense minister talks in Hanoi, covering maritime security, defense industry, training, cyber, UN peacekeeping, joint exercises, and force to force exchanges. They also signed an MoU on AI & quantum technology.
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Is India an ally of the US? Would they join us in a hot war with a china, russia, nk axis? IYO
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China, yes. Russia & North Korea are too far & inaccessible for any involvement.
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India opened Exercise PRAGATI 2026 in Meghalaya with 12 partner countries: Bhutan, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Focus areas include joint operations, intelligence management, and CT in jungle/semi-mountain terrain.
China’s Foreign Ministry announced Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will make an official visit to China from May 23rd to 26th at Premier Li Qiang’s invitation.
U.S. State Dept says Secretary Marco Rubio is traveling to Sweden and India from May 21st through 26th, with the India leg May 23rd to 26th including Kolkata, Agra, Jaipur, and New Delhi.
Pakistan Navy’s NAVAREA IX active warning list for May 26 includes warning 172/26 for live firing practice in the Arabian Sea/Pakistan area.
India’s Ministry of Defence says DRDO and the Indian Air Force successfully conducted flight tests of the RudraM-II air to surface missile from an airborne platform. The missiles were tested under extreme release conditions and guided to predefined targets with “pin point accuracy,” according to PIB.
India and the U.S. held the 29th Army to Army Staff Talks in Hawaii, co-chaired by Lt Gen Rajiv Ghai and Lt Gen Joel Vowell of U.S. Army Pacific. Focus of meeting was defense cooperation, interoperability, professional exchanges, and deeper military collaboration tied to shared security interests.
Pakistan Navy’s National Hydrographic Office listed a NAVAREA IX warning active for the Arabian Sea/Pakistan area, described as “LIVE WEAPON FIRING.”
For the first time, SIPRI assesses that India may have started occasionally deploying a small number of nuclear warheads during peacetime. SIPRI’s latest Yearbook estimates India may now have around 12 warheads deployed on one nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine, marking a major shift from India’s long assumed practice of keeping nuclear warheads separate from launchers during peacetime.
India’s total nuclear stockpile is estimated at 190 warheads as of January 2026.
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Pakistan NAVAREA IX issued warning 194/26 for a semi submersible operation by vessel HUA SHENG LONG in the Gulf of Oman / UAE area from June 11th through 15th. Mariners were asked to maintain a 0.5 nautical mile exclusion zone.
NAVAREA IX also still lists the SETTEBELLO warning, the tanker involved in a security incident causing fire and adrift in the Sea of Oman, about 21 nautical miles northeast of Port of Suhar.
India’s Ministry of Defence said the Indian Navy recovered an unexploded missile warhead from crude oil tanker MT Olympic Life off Kochi. The Marshall Islands flagged tanker had reported a hull explosion while off Oman on May 26 while transiting from Fujairah, UAE, to Kochi. India said there were no Indian nationals onboard.
This is separate from the earlier MT Marivex and SETTEBELLO cases.
India’s Defence Minister inaugurated an Advanced Weapon System Complex at DRDO’s Defence Research & Development Laboratory in Hyderabad.
India framed the facility around its missile systems and strategic systems ecosystem, while also highlighting indigenous missile performance during Operation Sindoor.
The release also states that “Mission Sudarshan Chakra” will be a multi level missile defense system for India.
India’s Ministry of Defence said DRDO conducted three consecutive flight tests on June 10th & 11th to demonstrate multi layered defence against long range ballistic missiles and medium range anti ship capability.
India said the ballistic missile interceptors successfully engaged their targets and claimed the tests place India among countries with BMD capability able to engage up to intercontinental ballistic missiles.
The same release also says the maiden flight test of the Naval Anti Ship Missile Medium Range, NASM-MR, was successful.
India's MoD/DRDO said a successful flight test of the Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile from Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam Island off Odisha has taken place. The release said all test objectives were met, with tracking support from Integrated Test Range assets at Chandipur.
India's MoD said annual defense production reached a record Rs 1.78 lakh crore in FY2025–26, up 15.6% from the previous fiscal year.
The release said DPSUs and other PSUs accounted for about 76% of production, while the private sector accounted for 24%. Defence exports reached Rs 38,424 crore.