Australia is hosting its biggest military exercise in history, Talisman Sabre 2025, involving over 40,000 personnel from 19 nations, including the US, UK, Japan, and NATO allies.
The drills feature dramatic airborne operations, live-fire missile tests, and joint naval maneuvers with aircraft carriers USS George Washington and HMS Prince of Wales. New weapon 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 boost interoperability and deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, especially as China was reportedly caught spying on the drills.
The unprecedented scale and multinational participation underscore growing security concerns and the strengthening of alliances in response to China’s assertiveness in the Pacific.
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