BANGALORE: A company of the British Army will come down to India in April to conduct a joint exercise with the Indian Army, Philip Dunne, minister for defence equipment, support and technology, Great Britain, said on Thursday. He was speaking on the sidelines of Aero India 2013.
"We plan to increase joint exercises between the two countries in the near future," said the 54-year-old Conservative Party politician.
The Indian Army, for the first time since Independence, carried out joint exercises with their British counterparts on British soil in 2008, when Mechanized Infantry troops received training at the British Army's prestigious Land Warfare Centre in Warminster.
The minister also said that talks are currently under way between British companies and the state governments of Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra on internal security, border security and port security.
He said that science and technology collaboration between DRDO and its British equivalent DSLT, which agreed on three projects, also saw an agreement of a new fourth project last week.
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