Jodhpur, Oct. 11 -- Future military power will depend less on the number of platforms a country possesses and more on how quickly it can sense, understand, decide and act, defence minister Rajnath Singh said on Saturday, stressing the importance of self-reliance and international cooperation amid warfare's changing nature. "The defence relationships of the future will be about technology and trust, not just about platforms," he said, while addressing participants of the second edition of Exercise Tarang Shakti 2026 at Air Force Station Jodhpur. Multinational exercises, he said, allowed air forces to exchange operational knowledge, test procedures and learn from different approaches to training and mission planning. Singh said modern warfare was expanding beyond land, sea and air into space, cyberspace, the electromagnetic spectrum and the information domain. He highlighted the growing role of drones, unmanned systems, artificial intelligence, electronic warfare and long-range precision weapons in military operations. Hosted by the Indian Air Force from September 26 to October 12, the multinational exercise brought together air forces from seven countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, France, Germany, Sri Lanka, the United Arab Emirates and the US, with another 32 nations participating as observers....