In recent months, Indonesia's acquisition and communication strategy regarding defense programs has been perceived in a chaotic manner, to say the least. Indeed, the country, which today has a fleet of around fifteen Russian Su-27 and Su-30 fighters, around thirty American F-16s and around forty light FA- 50 South Korean and British Hawk, has engaged in all-out negotiations to modernize the latter: here 11 Su-35s with Moscow, there 15 Eurofighter Typhoon second-hand from Austria, F16 or F35 from the United States, and recently 36 or 48 Rafale near France.
These announcements were all the more incomprehensible as they were often accompanied by a certain willingness on the part of Jakarta to go through the negotiations, and to actually order the devices, at least such was the speech held by the Indonesian officials. . It was therefore feared that all these negotiations had no other purpose than to put pressure on Washington to obtain authorization to acquire F-35s, which the Indonesian air force considered essential to stand up to military power. rising Chinese. Also, some announcements from Jakarta seemed contradictory, like the announcement of the maintenance of the order of Su-35 while wishing to acquire F16V and especially the F35, or the negotiation concerning Typhoon second-hand Austrians while visibly moving forward at high speed with Paris on the subject of Rafale.
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