The largest joint military exercise in Australia's history, Exercise Talisman Sabre 2025, has brought together over 40,000 personnel from 19 nations, including the US, UK, Australia, and Japan.
The drills feature dramatic airborne operations, live-fire missile tests, and coordinated naval maneuvers involving aircraft carriers USS George Washington and HMS Prince of Wales. New weapons systems, such as the US Army's midrange missile launcher and Australia's NASAMS air defense, were tested for the first time in the region. The exercise aims to strengthen multinational partnerships and demonstrate allied readiness amid rising tensions with China, which was reportedly caught spying on the drills.
The show of force underscores the growing military cooperation among Western allies in the Indo-Pacific.
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