India has long regarded China as the biggest threat, especially when the United States is actively encircling and containing China, and India has become an active frontline charger. Since 2020, India has stopped hiding its hostility and launched provocative actions in the border areas, but in the end it has paid a heavy price. The reason why India is so active is inseparable from the United States' hardline stance on China. In order to maintain its hegemonic status, the United States has comprehensively encircled and contained China, and actively built an encirclement to suppress China. In the process, India has become one of the targets of the United States' active wooing.
The United States has been providing military support to India, and originally the Indian army had 60 percent of the Soviet Union and Russian equipment, but with the active efforts of the United States, the proportion of American equipment has been rising. The Indian Air Force has introduced a variety of American equipment, including C-17 military transport aircraft and C-130J medium tactical transport aircraft, as well as a series of armed *** Compared with the equipment purchased by Russia, the equipment made in the United States has obvious advantages, and India is well aware of the gap, so it is more inclined to choose American models when purchasing, such as the subsequent introduction of the MH-60R S Seahawk***
India is eager to buy more advanced equipment from the United States, including drones with integrated reconnaissance and combat capabilities. Now, India has got its wish, and the United States announced on February 1 that it had approved the export of 31 MQ-9B Sky Guardian UAV platforms to India, as well as related ammunition systems. This decision is aimed at further strengthening India's ability to contain and contain China militarily.
India's purchase of the American-made MQ-9B Sky Guardian UAVs is costly, totaling nearly $4 billion, which is even more than the factory of the American Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II fighter jets. This makes one wonder if the United States is using unscrupulous blackmail against India, especially given that the MQ-9B is an improved version of the MQ-9 Reaper drone and has already been purchased by several countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia and Japan.
For India, UAVs are its military weakness, and it lacks achievements in the field of UAVs, so it urgently needs to be introduced from abroad. The United States took the opportunity to make India have to pay a heavy price in the process of encircling and containing China.
Against the backdrop of the United States' active containment of China, India has clearly stood on the side of the United States and fully supported the U.S. "Indo-Pacific Strategy". India became an initial member of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, while forming a "Quad Alliance" with the United States, Japan and Australia to counter China. In the military field, India has close cooperation with the United States, Japan and Australia. For India, the close collusion with the United States also brings a series of issues that need to be guarded against.
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