Soon after Mr Trump took charge of the Oval Office for the second time, India and the US issued a joint statement in February 2025, agreeing to expand defence sales, co-production and interoperability efforts

xThe US state department has approved the sale of Javelin anti-tank missile systems and Excalibur-guided artillery munitions worth $93-million to India. Earlier this month, India signed a deal to purchase 113 fighter‐jet engines from US firm General Electric for its indigenous Tejas Mk-1A aircraft. Both the deals reaffirm a mature bilateral defence relationship between the world’s largest democracy and the world’s most powerful democracy.

Though the US and India relations have been rocky especially in matters of trade and commerce after Donald Trump took over reins in Washington in

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