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 US and UK aircraft carriers, showcasing advanced weaponry like the SM-6 and NASAMS systems. The exercises aim to strengthen multinational partnerships and demonstrate deterrence in the Indo-Pacific, particularly as China increases its regional assertiveness and is reported to have spied on the drills. Notably, new capabilities such as the US Army’s midrange missile system and Australia’s air defense upgrades were tested for the first time.
The unprecedented scale and multinational participation underscore a unified response to security challenges in the Pacific.
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