Australia is hosting its biggest military exercise in history, Talisman Sabre 2025, involving over 40,000 personnel from 19 nations, including the US, UK, and Japan.
The drills feature dramatic airborne operations, live-fire missile tests, and joint naval maneuvers with aircraft carriers like the 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 Pacific. The exercise aims to strengthen multinational partnerships and demonstrate allied readiness in the Indo-Pacific, with a clear focus on deterring potential threats from China.
Chinese surveillance activities were detected during the drills, highlighting the region’s strategic tensions.
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