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After independence, in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999 India faced four major wars with Pakistan; in 1962 an unfortunate war with China and faced many anti-terrorist operations. Near our surroundings of us, Pakistan and China are continuously developing their defence power. India's defence analysts were always creating awareness and guided to nations' security, modernisation of armed forces equipment, indigenous defence production and upliftment of advanced modern equipment for defence on the border in land, air and sea of our nation. India wanted to protect its homeland from external threats so, she signed a defence deal with 20 foreign countries including France, Russia, Israel etc. Particularly Indo-France defence relations are in four phases and the move forward to defence cooperation is in the fifth phase. In this fifth phase, India collaborates with France and will create the defence potential for self-reliance, leading global power, more concentrating on indigenous production and exporting defence goods to foreign countries. Regarding the Indo-France Defence various phases, this paper concentrates in the succeeding paragraph.