Of course not! How could you fit $2 billion / sub * 8 = $16 billion (high estimate, unpaid for) into a $650 rearmament program! :rolleyes:

Isn’t $650bn the total military budget over the decade, not the procurement budget?

Pfft, poseurs. Mozambique has an AK-47 on their freaking flag. And of course in Egypt you’ll find this:

Aviation Week – Australia Formally Approves Extra C-17 Buy

SINGAPORE — Australia’s defense minister, Stephen Smith, says the government has made a formal decision to buy a fifth Boeing C-17.

“We will acquire another C-17 heavy-lift plane and we will do that as quickly as we can,” the minister told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

Australia already has four C-17s, one of which is now in Japan. Smith says Australia and the U.S. are the only two foreign countries with military aircraft in Japan at the moment.

Jolly good.

I hope NZ does go in for a C-17 or two at some point and that we end up with a joint strategic airlift force.

This has been discussed at length elsewhere. Eurofighter now says that with TVC, the angle of attack for approach to a carrier deck can be such that the canards would not be a visual obstruction. Without TVC, they are in the way.

Is that all that TVC adds to the feasibility/practicality of Sea Typhoon or does it contribute in other ways also?

I like “Airbridge” from that list. “Atlas” is good also but would reserve that for the larger KC-Y/Z if that ever eventuates.

Actually there’s misquote on what the Ministry of Defence really means. I already said this few months back in Tanggo III Thread, that looking to original quotations in Indonesian, he means that in the next decade (2020-2022) he envisage TNI-AU will have 10 Fighter sq (then the plan Orbat of 7 sq that I already put up to 2014).

At the same time he’s mentioning he will add 6 Flankers to existing Flankers Sq in Makasar to make it 16 fighters (full sq). Somehow Journalist misquote that and saying he’s planing to have 160-180 Flankers (or 10 sq of Flankers).

7 sq of Fighters at plan orbat means only add 1 sq from previously 6 sq consists of: 1 sq of F-16, 1 Sq of F-5, 2 sq of Hawk Mk109/209, 1 sq of LIFT (Hawk Mk 53), and 1 sq of COIN (OV-10). Thus up until 2014 the plan is only adding 1 sq (that’s Flankers), whille the rest (Additional F-16, Super Tucano/COIN, and T-50 or Yak 130/LIFT) are for replacements.

So TNI-AU plan is doing step by step and not running ;).

I missed this earlier: thanks for the clarification!

Indonesia’s development over the next few decades is going to be very interesting to watch.