On January 25, India and France announced a “defence industrial roadmap” for cooperation on defence production, for future collaboration on co-design and co-development of military hardware, as well as key agreements on space cooperation, reports The Hindu. The industrial roadmap is designed to facilitate technology collaboration across various domains, including air, space, maritime, and land warfare. The roadmap was part of a number of agreements between the two countries that were sealed during talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron in Jaipur. The two sides also signed a new agreement for a defence-space partnership that will see them collaborate on space situational awareness, and an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on coordinating on satellite launches, along with other agreements on partnerships in energy, digital health, agriculture, and education.