{"id":15445,"date":"2026-06-02T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T05:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15445"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T07:51:35","slug":"aukus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/aukus\/","title":{"rendered":"AUKUS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>AUKUS Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, the Aukus alliance members said that they will develop advanced underwater drone systems and further deepen their maritime relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About AUKUS<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a <\/span><b>trilateral security partnership<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> between the <\/span><b>United Kingdom, the United States<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of <\/span><b>America,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>Australi<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a agreed in 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It aims to boost <\/span><b>defense capabilities,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> accelerate technological integration, and expand the industrial capacity of all three nations as a part of a collective effort to <\/span><b>stabilize the Indo-Pacific region<\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AUKUS is intended to strengthen the ability of each government to support security and defense interests, building on longstanding and ongoing bilateral ties.<\/span><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><b>It consists of two key pillars<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Pillar 1:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It focuses on supporting Australia to acquire its first conventionally armed, nuclear-powered submarine fleet. It does not involve the transfer of nuclear weapons to Australia.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Pillar 2:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It focuses on cooperation <\/span><b>in eight advanced military capability areas<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: artificial intelligence (AI), quantum technologies, innovation, information sharing, and cyber, undersea, hypersonic, counter-hypersonic, and electronic warfare domains.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/around-the-world\/aukus-unveils-subsea-drone-pact\/articleshow\/131429569.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUKUS is a trilateral security partnership between the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and Australia agreed in 2021. Read more about AUKUS, Aim, Members, Key Pillars, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":106319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7904],"class_list":["post-15445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-aukus","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15445"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106344,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions\/106344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}