India and Kazakhstan have agreed to strengthen cooperation on counter-uncrewed aerial systems (C-UAS) and training, Indian Defence News reports today (March 27).
According to the article, Marshal Ashutosh Dixit, Chief of India’s Integrated Defence Staff (CISC), engaged in high-level discussions in New Delhi on March 25 with Major General Zhazykbayev Shaikh-Khassan, Deputy Minister of Defence of Kazakhstan.
Indian Defence News suggests that exchanges in this domain could involve simulations, live-fire drills and doctrinal alignment, potentially leading to co-developed solutions suited to steppe and mountainous environments.
Cooperation could also lead to formal agreements on C-UAS R&D, joint ventures or technology licensing, bolstering both nations’ defence industrial bases, the article said, noting that C-UAS could serve as a “flagship for innovation” in a new phase of Indo-Kazakh defence relations.
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