According to Jane's article, Indonesian Air Force would starting to received Rafale Fighter F4 around 2026. The rest would follow in the coming years
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/indonesia-to-receive-six-rafales-by-2026
If your country signing for new F-16 today the first delivery would take some time between four to five years from the activated contract dates, maybe more. We got at least 140 or something backlog order, in which by 2026 the production line still wouldnt finish the order backlog.
@Indos MOU/LOI level contract, this is new term for me who already in this kind of business for years. Usually I don't give a fuck about your comment in here or there, but hhh i am speechless with such "ingenuity" coming from you.
And then you are bring irrelevant stuff like Politics and such...
Still on discussion and proper planning, never knew if there is another cross over in the final Laps. What i can said, even the US is very eager to sold their Arleigh Burke class,one Made in their own yards to foreign customer, expect unexpected.
Btw there is still several must have item in which doesn't know they can proceed nowadays or must waiting after current shopping spree ended. One of them are LRAD and MERAD system, but some influence planner though it is better to procure high end Frigates and Destroyer especially one with ABM...
That's still in the future.... reserve the question for decades later.
Just focusing to get the number of legacy platform as soon as possible and as many as possible, prepare the funding for maintenance and repair, focusing to train the crew and pilots, focusing to increasing the security in...