Parry Brima
Contributor
With the sole exception of the Typhoon, any fighter we procure would face delayed delivery due to worldwide reduction of industrial capacity in general. Let's say both Rafale deal from Greece & Indonesia went through. Does Dassault have enough capacity to deliver to all their customer within a reasonable amount of time? 3 - 4 years is quite long for Indonesia case, considering the situation up north
There are some possible scenario if the deals go thru. They can "loan/lease" some of theirs to be stationed here as trainer platform as well as perhaps limited military operation. But until now I still dont see how we going to finance that 36 with all those other projects on the line, specially our commitment to buy something from US. But hey miracle do happen sometime right?
And dassault still need to build Rafale for French air force to replace the one that will be sold to Greece.
If we build Rafale here is it possible that it will be faster? We don't need to queue in Dassault production line, though if the subsystems supplier can't keep up then it will be useless to open production line here to speed things up.
Because of all of these reasons, I got the feeling that we'll buy more used Typhoon than just the 15 from Austria.
Once all the 2024 new year celebrations ended, the war could start anytime soon. Rafale, F-15, F-18, won't be ready by then.