Parry Brima
Contributor
Well according to Max Defense, USA can only allow Philippine to get cheap second hand F 16 if Pinoy buy new F 16 V, so it should be in combined. Indonesia will not have difficulty to do that with 1.1 billion USD foreign loan approval from FM already
They'd accept if we only buy like 2-3 new Vipers and make the rest (30+) from the boneyards? I highly doubt it.
$1.1 bil is not much. It's only worth about one squadron of new Vipers.
If we want to combine new+second hand jets with only $1.1 bil, the one that gives us the most in terms of numbers would probably be the SHornets. Superhornets block III is cheaper than Vipers and there are plenty of second hand SHornets everywhere.