AEW&C & MPA might have to re-think if they had a good contender (Like Globaleye for AEW&C / SAAB Swordfish or Kawasaki P-1 for MPA), business jet based MPA or AWACS might have a plus point in runway length needed.
I don't really think there will be a country who's going to sell an exoatmospheric interceptor like THAAD to us (aren't those thing considered as strategic assets ? and actually can used to destroy other "stuff" other than ballistic missile) , our option probably will be limited to like Aster-30...
well the "full TOT" and ASTROS stuff was wrong, perhaps that person refer to this.
https://www.kemhan.go.id/pothan/2020/02/17/monitoring-tot-rudal-nassam.html
they are referring to nasams, and the 200km is detection range, not the interception range.
"Jadi, sebelum rudal 200 kilo dari sasaran sudah mampu dijangkau radar. Dengan kecepatan supersonic, rudal pengamanan ibu kota yang sekarang diinstal di teluk naga mampu menghancurkan rudal tersebut...
or they were not meant for short range engagement at all, besides autocannon may come in handy especially for CAS against light armored ground/surface target.
pretty interesting, i wonder if Block 2 onwards will have enclosed gun ports for the 20mm autocannon like F-35,F-22,SU-57 (i just realized chinese stealth J series like J-20 and J-31 does not have integrated autocannon)
with atlantean metallurgical forging capability and a propeller blade designed like a jet turbine compressor, those thing might aswell break the sound barrier while submerged underwater.
bootleg engine parts casting like this has already been done even in country with worse economy and living standard than us.
they will not have same quality or endurance (let's say tensile strength) compared to the one that made in technologically advanced and sophisticated Foundry with...
if you see the video, the babcock spoke person at 3:49 Timestamp indeed said that the forward 40mm gun placement can be reconfigured with additional VLS instead.
spending $50 million for providing a design of indigenous F-35 variants, that either a country who are really desperate on getting such capabilty or just having too much money to spend, my assumption would be either one of the middle east countries or the formosa island settlers.
besides aren't we were offered the newer one that were essentialy a Hellfire Truck (16x hellfire payload), MQ-1 On steroids, back then General Atomics spokeperson told they were working with a new variants of MQ-1C that were able to take-off and land on an unpaved runway useful for country like...
