Quite interesting, looking from this points, F15EX is more akin toward fighter bomber aircraft comparable to Su34 but with much higher Air to Air battle performance and complete strike package
It is seems to me more affordable to acquire ready to purchase system already exist in the market, and pursue local assembly agreement and producing fast moving sparepart, as long as we bought it in very large number.
If they want to take the routes those would defeat the purpose of affordable, cheap in operational light weight fighter, because as far as i know those design are what Lockheed Martin offer to DAPA/KAI side of what high performance single engine fighter with almost similar capability or more...
Unfortunately they are already the bottom line of what already the best the market had in light fighter category, unless you are going to find China solution.....
No need to be concerned so much about those strange neighbor
Me more concerned about how deep our pocket afterall, how much the cuan can be generated every years and how to protect those cuan making tools and projects. What Chinese doing in those gas drilling Block in Natuna is should be become...
With this kind of situation we can related ourselves with major power house such as India or South Korea, why they are very eager to developing their own light fighter aircraft such as Hal Tejas or F/A 50, even though they already had hundreds top of the line frontline fighter aircraft such as...
Neither of them, the costs would be prohibiting unless you have deep pocket here and there. But i doubt that, even with small research, with the current trajectories economy continue to growing up till reach two trillion US Dollar by then, if we keep the current record of defense spending...
While you have Effective surveilance system in place (enhanced C4ISR, comprised of satelit system, fiber optic to support network system, radar coveraged, and so on ) you still need effective tools to ensure the ADIZ being protected, and to protect and guard the country air space there is no...
With all of the procurement happened, their delivery Times would go around between 2026 through around early 2030 year.
With the F15 EX, Rafale F4 and KF21 going to dominated the high end lists. Our low end fighter fleets in which comprised of F-16 (all of them is older variants in which had...
Like his spirit, at least he already trying to get the best of the best for his people. Now he met with Prabowo, both of them kinda have the same spirit when going shopping.
Btw, when dankormar mentioned USMC grants for LVT 7, looking at his eager to call the US Marine corps commander Made me...
Should be, they are kinda need the number of airframe lately. We got trolled by our own mindset before, most of us must be thinking we only ordered severely reduced number of Rafale (they negotiated for 36) and they finally increase the number to 42. And there is no reason to doubt their initial...
Intermezzo, Thailand got deals for eight little birds, their DCSA release was way back in 2019, and only concluded the deals recently. This case was the same with Indonesian used F16 Grant and Sales activity, as they need more than three years to conclude the deals. Indonesian F15EX Sales deals...
Don't know which expert @Indos had been talking for so long
Andi Alisjahbana one of the expert at PT DI stated, the government decision to acquire new jet fighter is not only about cost saving but more about the threat perception, security needs and so on. KF21 and Rafale program is very...