Look bro, unlike
@nufix I do acknowledge Iran military industry capability, but saying Indonesia is just a financier of KFX/IFX program is wrong and need to be fixed. The plan uses many US technology like engine so we still depend on the US regardless we develop it with South Korea. So it is not logic if we finance the program around 2 billon USD for unproven design where we can still buy proven F16 V from US.
The program cost make us dont finance our own plane program like R 80 that is actually costing less than 2 billion USD to develop. R 80 plane is 100 % Indonesian and has more possibility to make profit, even KFX/IFX chief designer acknowledge that civil program is more profitable than jet fighter program with huge cost and limited market (since it has to compete with Western fighters). So it is not logic we finance KFX/IFX program by sacrificing our own. We also can buy modern fighter from Western countries.
The reason we do it is to improve our designers and engineers in production division in making jet fighter. The program started in 2009 where Indonesia and SK make MOU and the research going on since 2010 where at that time there is only DAPA from Korea and Indonesian Aerospace and ITB (Bandung Institute of Technology) plus some fighters pilots from Korea and Indonesia.
Indonesia has had design experience and develop modern aircraft since 1977 while aircraft development is still new for South Korea with their first project KT Wong Bee and then T 50 Golden Eagle with US assistance. We dont get another country assistance since we build N 250 during 1990-1995, N 2130 1995-2000 (failed due to IMF) and N 219.
KAI Korea also forbid Indonesia designers whose age below 30 which means they really need experience designers. You should come to KFX/IFX thread to know more about the program. There are knowledgeable Korean as well in that thread that are contributing, not only me.
This is what Korean side said.
"Despite such a delay in payment, the Indonesian side has continued to send its researchers to South Korea to take part in the development process," Rep. Kim Joong-ro of the minor opposition Bareunmirae Party said during a parliamentary audit into the administration, voicing concern about technology leaks.
As of July, 114 Indonesian engineers were sent to South Korea to work with Korea Aerospace Industries Co. (KAI), the country's sole aircraft manufacturer, to design and make a prototype of the fighter, according to a DAPA official.
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Yonhap) -- Indonesia is in arrears on its payment obligations for a joint p...
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Our first developed aircraft is this. We build this in 1957. It is still a small workshop in Aerospace facility but later the facility become Indonesian Aerospace.
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The
LIPNUR Sikumbang (manufacturer designation
X-01) was a low-wing monoplane of mixed construction built in Indonesia in 1954 as a
COIN and anti-guerrilla-warfare aircraft. Of conventional configuration, it had fixed tricycle undercarriage and seated the pilot under a bubble canopy. A single example was built under the designation
NU-200 in 1954, and another as the
NU-225 in 1957. The latter machine was grounded in 1967.
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