Though i much more worry on how the European doing their work, as you can see Rafale and Euro Fighter program is previously plague by severe delay and cost overrun. I would not say American don't have such tendencies lately, but American has knack to do the jobs rightly when they are hard...
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This if only you had the time and resources, so you can reap further from the development phase. If only...
If what my friends said in MoD is can be trusted, Indonesia actually doesn't have much time and resource to leisurely doing what we are currently do (yeah ah 140 is a mess, so with...
What New model need
-Development of technology and securing supplier sources for most parts
-Certification process
-installation process and field testing
-Projects flaw and bugs after installation, in which doesn't surface during development phase
- Debugging and fixing the bugs
That's...
That's just your feeling
Nein, in the past when the communication is severely limited and the grass roots rebellion propaganda accross the country still prevalent along with their Armed movement just like what happened in Maluku, Aceh, North Sulawesi, South Sulawesi even close to Capital city...
Nein, our country is very much more resilient compared to whatever you have assumed, the Dutch literally blockade Indonesia to the death during Independence war, trying to build as many as puppet state as they can, but here we are, prevailled against all odds as unitary state.
You are taking Sinkies so highly, and underestimate your own severely. That's not healthy at all. Sinkies with all of their modern stuff is not much beyond our capabilities just like Indonesia and China or USA comparison. They by any means can't and never have sufficient resources to waging...
100 fighter with thousand tonnes of bombs and missile would not dent Jakarta at all, Singapore is not an official Ally of the US, though they are part of FPDA. If the Singaporean dare to sent first attack, they would be condemned internasionally, their people would be barred from the trade lest...
Singapore jelas bunuh diri kalo mau mulai perang duluan versus Indonesia, mereka bakalan kehilangan dukungan internasional apapun Cassus belli dan dalil yang mereka pakai. Kedua, Indonesia with all of her weakness in military would not be willing to be cornered into negotiation table, especially...