"And now, after the Indonesia question, another front could also open up: the Greek one."
^^ Well if the Greek finally selected the Fincantieri FREMM it will no longer be considered as a SLAP but a PUNCH. Lol.
Italian media responded to the French La Tribune article.
The Italian slap that angers France
Lorenzo Vita
19 JUNE 2021
France is not there. The Italian move (by Fincantieri) to grab a contract with Indonesia of about 4 billion for the sale of six Fremm frigates plus modernization and sale of...
Don't know if 08 already received the offer.
"Prancis Mendaftarkan Paten Desain Fregat Belharra ke Indonesia"
http://defense-studies.blogspot.com/2020/08/prancis-mendaftarkan-paten-desain.html?m=1
Lol.
"In any case, in France nobody saw anything coming. Neither the State, nor the intelligence services, nor Naval Group and nor Thales, whose Dutch subsidiary is nevertheless very present in Indonesia."
^^^ To be honest even we didn't see this coming. Lol.
"And this especially since this contract is already in force, according to certain sources from La Tribune."
^^ So the contract is already efective? Did Indonesia paid the down payment already?
Looks like France is very upset with Italy. They were totally surprised by the Italian deal. Lol.
The thunderclap of Fincantieri in Indonesia strongly shakes France
The slap is enormous for the French export team. Especially since nobody saw it coming.
Michel Cabirol
June 17, 2021, 6:00
5...
The singaporean guys is this OPSSG right?
One of his comment:
"5. In my unsourced opinion from reading this thread, Prabowo Subianto’s gang just needs to pocket the commissions from various arms deals (as long as it is not from the US) — to fund his next election. Buying American fighters...
Excerpt:
"The Italian deal follows Indonesia’s signing of an agreement with Japan allowing the transfer of Japanese military equipment and technology to the Indonesian armed forces,. This was followed shortly by the news that Indonesia was gearing up to spend $3.6 billion on the procurement of...
And yet there are people including members here who didn't want to see this happening. They are hoping all this including the latest procurement of FREMM and Rafale to be cancelled. Lol.