US should boost Indian Navy's combat power: US think tank

With the US and India agreeing to explore the joint development of India's next-generation aircraft carrier, a leading think tank has suggested US offer India latest technology to help increase Indian Navy's combat power.

"While the Indian Navy has already begun design work, wide-ranging cooperation with the United States has enormous potential," Ashley J. Tellis, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggested.

"Such collaboration would increase the Indian Navy's combat power and would resonate throughout the Asian continent to India's strategic advantage," he wrote in a new report.

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