they only thinking from technical and finance perspective, ignoring from historic and political aspect, the reason why we have sukhoi in our inventory, old chinese phase says " never put all your eggs in one basket " doesn't applies for them
apart from meteor and scalp I hope we can get both...
i rarely visit lowy*t, but I often visit defen*talk, sometimes they have a quality discussion, on other round when they talk about MoD or politics I think they bit too far.
https://www.defenc*talk.com/military/forums/t/indonesian-aero-news.9220/page-103#post-381371
since the poster is Singaporean and and well know with the US system then its quite understanable when he push TNI-AU to get viper for the sake of commonality and interoperability, but when he talks...
some poster in def*talk gives his opinion about our rafale aquisition , he seems clear mind and reasonable about price, logistic, training and interoperability but then carried out when he's talk about MoD,
as a supporter for rafale aquisition what is your opinion to counter f16v, what make...
maybe part of loan from France spending must be made in france aquisition, personally why dont go for FREMM , gowind some kind of nanggung, Japanese ffm have better platform
hmm looks like old procurement before ffx and fremm got consideration, also 48 rafale, last time i see the from france side is 36 unit and no hornet on our latest list
hope the gov know what they doing, if they accept it I'm agree with you, they sailing path should be under our supervision by creating some corridor for their vessel