Sigh .... Dude , the only reason those eagles hasn't landed yet was purely because we never show them the money as yet ... !!
Keseimbangan kawasan my ass ...
While in the F 35 case , obviously were a bridge too far today for us/RI who always notoriusly known as " Independent player " or...
This is turn into political .... But , let me entertain you for a bit . You said she was medle on everything and anything . Yet , dude .... I say it was a matter of persfectives here . Who say she is not encouraged by jkw to do that ?? If SMI were so strong and powerfull . Trust me for saying...
Ever heard check and balances ?? Dream big was allways encouraged . But without a sound financial capability to back your dreams .... All of those dreams and grand ideas were nothing but morning wet dream .
Dude , did you really so naively to believe that a strategic export articles in military stuffs was comparable and identical to the articles that issued to the military of said origin country ?? Did you ...
?? Compare that with the latest j series that get churned weekly by those mainlander ...
To be honest ....Caatsa was blessing in disguise for us . Like it or not SU 35 export version was not relevant in today environment and challenges....
And some theatrical and dramas were a neccesity to soothe things up
Everybody has their own judgment and bias yet with her credential and capabilities today ?? She doesn't need to dip her toe in the murky water of indonesia's politic just to get the thing she want or desire ...
You guys are simply so underestimates her and give her a too litle credit for her...
I Second to this ....
Bigger platform = bigger coverage , loading capability , future upgrade choices and longer endurance ..
Make the best decision with the most of our scarce ( if availabke !! ) money
SMI would listen to the dinosaur of past era ?? This is the character that doesn't even bat an eye to ARB and SBY .... And literally burried the former political carrer even with all of his money and the latter coercion and connection ..
Try to make some more realistic joke will ya' ....
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All i know is F 15ex were highly praised by our veteran pilots active and retired ... and they the one who understand the on what was the pros and cons in the current global political and threat challenges we will be facing ..
SU 35 was allready a bygone era ...
Wether that endorsement would...
Like @Nilgiri said ..
It takes a concentrated effort and sacrifices to make such endeavour comes into reality . An efforts we lacked and sacrifices we couldn't dare to stomach ... Yet , we could spare an effort try to create an overrated turboprop aircraft that never sale ...... Ironic isn't...
I've said this couple of times allready ...building our own engines be it gasoline , diesel and turbojet ( yeah , i stretched it a bit there ) was allready within our mean of technological capabilities . It's the economical scalability that was never been met nor achieved .
I guess our domestic...
Well , atleast with this recent incident we have something to speculate with ....
And watching gleefully in the sideline for the aftermath sales war ...
And they definitely would come
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IMHO ....unlesss in some speciliazed field . in overall sense they have allready left the bear in the...
Too early to tell in this so early of the game . But , surely it paint a bad reps for the F 35 marketing team .
And by that statement you had backed my point . Amped enough power ... The RCS return signal get more cleared ( i don't know how they do it but obviously they manage to do so ) . It's...
Well , russian were well known for brute forced everything they could ever get hands on ...
Amped up enough microwave length there you have an adequate yet expensive solution to counter a " stealth " object ... Effective ...?? No one knows for sure here ...
It's a matter of persfective really ...
The blood was spilled was true . And yet , targetted progrom ?? Somebody cooking's something here . During soeharto's reigns everybody get the special treatment even the javanese ... Say what you will about Us indonesian . But , we are genuienly consider...
While i concur about the flying cost you are simply missunderstood the political and tactical relevances on this acquisition . Some specific incident requires a very fast response beyond what the hercs could carry . Liked or not this is one of those preparation for the rainy days ahead ...