UK-India defence relations
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YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS
2021
UK officer joins Indian Navy’s key centre for Indian Ocean region
After the US, France, Japan and Australia, the UK has now posted a liaison officer at a key Indian Navy centre that tracks shipping and monitors maritime threats in the Indian Ocean Region. Lt-Commander Stephen Smith will be based full-time at the Information Fusion Centre-Indian Ocean Region (IFC-IOR) at Gurugram to work directly with the Indian armed forces and liaison officers from other countries. Set up in 2018, the IFC-IOR takes feeds and inputs from multiple sources ranging from coastal radars to satellites. It then fuses, correlates and analyses them to assess threats in the maritime domain. TNN