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Who knows we can cooperate for the FA-50 project. I know you aren't in it. But the look of the first missiles, aren't they small for a massive aircraft like that?
For T50 Golden Eagle, Indonesia is just a customer. Indonesia Air Force is seen as using Korean plane for their standard training (T50 Golden Eagle (Advanced) and Wong Bee (Beginner)). We have bought another 6 T50i planes in 2021 and has already approved acquisition program to order another Wong Bee plane from Korea, execution maybe will be done this year or next year.
I dont know whether our Air Force will replace our Hawk squadrons for FA50 or not, but the tendency I believe is to replace them with KF21 planes as previously Air Force wants to replace Hawk squadrons with F16 Viper. Last year we change the plan and tried to refurbish and upgrade Hawk 100/200 where I believe this program is a stop gap measure to wait KF21 program to reach its mass production phase inshaAllah.
The smart bomb is still in prototype phase and Indonesia, if we see on the plan, wants to have both medium (Bayrakar) and large UCAV system (Elang Hitam MALE UCAV). So I guess there will likely be several types of smart bomb being developed, starting with small one first. The smart bomb is intended for both UCAV and fighter planes.
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