And yet there are people including members here who didn't want to see this happening. They are hoping all this including the latest procurement of FREMM and Rafale to be cancelled. Lol.
He doesn't see even US as superpower who literally can build everything in the world still rely on their allies to provide some cost effective technology to them. USS constelation class and Super Tucano is one recent example, the other is Harrier jump jet, Elbit Helmet and so on. Let alone Indonesia who still at Crawling stage, to be honest there is no one is willing to provide any critical technology to other cheaply most must be get by license agreement with bulk order first. China PL 8 is example of how China get the license production of Phyton 3 AAM from Israel by buying in the bulk order first.
China reason for us to bought 500 C705 before proceed to license agreement is very reasonable and it is actually to compensated China research and development program cost and securing production line of C705 in Indonesia.
Piecemeal and one by one production would get you nowhere at Commercial scale.
This MoD decision to decisively put emphasize on the bulk order with reasonable time frame is actually to helped our local Defense industry to get some technology or knowledge from the deal.
Just look at his previous deal with PT PINDAD for ammo, firearm and utility vehicles with bulk order he already Made the local SOE is bankable enough to secure lending from Commercial bank to get their jobs working.
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