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BRAVO to KAI ...It looks and confirm that South Korea can complete its KFX project with or without participation of Indonesia ..
Correct, Korea has capacity to complete it alone now. Indonesia itself is strong in design. This is one of the reasons why South Korea pick Indonesia as partner. KFX in light design for example relied heavily from Indonesian engineer as no South Korean that has expertise on that design work. But as design work has been completed and now move to manufacturing phase and testing, South Korea can do it alone if Indonesia abandon the project. But despite that, as I have said to you in previous conversation, continue or not, Indonesia still got valuable experience in developing a fighter jet. This experience can be used to develop Indonesian own STEALTH fighter program in the future. Once we got more ambitious leader, we have capability to start our own fighter program.
Indonesia develop fighter jet when Korea delay KFX/IFX program in 2014 to wait for Korea parliament to back up the project.
Renegotiation is still happening and we dont know for sure what is the result of it. But of course South Korea is not stupid, they know Indonesia is projected by IMF to have 1.8 trillion- 2 trillion GDP during 2026-2030 period and our Minimal Essential Force plan has already shown that we have ambitious plan for our Air Force. Indonesia, if it keeps inside the program, has possibility not only to buy 50 IFX as promise but also more than 100 as our GDP in 2034 is projected to be similar like India 2020 GDP (projection before Covid19). And we know how much India spend on defense last year despite it has 1.4 billion to feed.