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Indonesia offers to buy 15 Used Eurofighter Typhoons from Austria

In what came as a bolt from the blue, Indonesia has offered to buy over a dozen used Eurofighter jets from Austria.

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Austrian defense minister Klaudia Tanner received a letter dated July 10 from his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto intended to acquire 11 Eurofighters, Die Presse newspaper reported Sunday.
“To achieve my target of modernizing the Indonesian Air Force, I would, therefore, like to propose to enter into official deliberation with you, your Excellency, on purchasing all 15 Eurofighter Typhoons from Austria for the Air Force of the Republic of Indonesia,” Prabowo said in the alleged letter circulated in social media.
There is no official confirmation from Indonesia or Austria on this matter.
Austria bought the 15 jets in 2002 for nearly €2.3 billion. These jets are from Tranche 1, a marker for basic operational capabilities, which focuses more on air-defense missions. Eurofighter consortium has offered upgrades to Tranches 2 and 3, which greatly improves the fighter’s ground attack capabilities.
In February 2017, Defense Ministry Hans Peter Doskozil sued Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium in February for allegedly deliberately misleading Vienna about the purchase price, delivery times and technical equipment of the 18 jets in 2003 contract. Austria has filed a lawsuit to recoup €1.1 billion against Airbus.
Jakarta is said to have previously studied purchasing Su-35s from Russia, American F-35 and F-16 fighters, and French Rafale jets.
On July 6, the U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of 8 MV-22 Block C Osprey aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2 billion. It came as a surprise as Indonesia was not earlier known to be in the running to buy the MV-22 Ospreys, which are the most expensive rotorcraft in the U.S. and sold only to a handful of foreign customers.

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/2...urofighter_Typhoons_from_Austria#.XysCNIhKi70
 
Indonesia offers to buy 15 Used Eurofighter Typhoons from Austria

In what came as a bolt from the blue, Indonesia has offered to buy over a dozen used Eurofighter jets from Austria.

Eurofighter-Typhoon-Weapons-Bay-1.jpg

Austrian defense minister Klaudia Tanner received a letter dated July 10 from his Indonesian counterpart Prabowo Subianto intended to acquire 11 Eurofighters, Die Presse newspaper reported Sunday.
“To achieve my target of modernizing the Indonesian Air Force, I would, therefore, like to propose to enter into official deliberation with you, your Excellency, on purchasing all 15 Eurofighter Typhoons from Austria for the Air Force of the Republic of Indonesia,” Prabowo said in the alleged letter circulated in social media.
There is no official confirmation from Indonesia or Austria on this matter.
Austria bought the 15 jets in 2002 for nearly €2.3 billion. These jets are from Tranche 1, a marker for basic operational capabilities, which focuses more on air-defense missions. Eurofighter consortium has offered upgrades to Tranches 2 and 3, which greatly improves the fighter’s ground attack capabilities.
In February 2017, Defense Ministry Hans Peter Doskozil sued Airbus and the Eurofighter consortium in February for allegedly deliberately misleading Vienna about the purchase price, delivery times and technical equipment of the 18 jets in 2003 contract. Austria has filed a lawsuit to recoup €1.1 billion against Airbus.
Jakarta is said to have previously studied purchasing Su-35s from Russia, American F-35 and F-16 fighters, and French Rafale jets.
On July 6, the U.S. State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of 8 MV-22 Block C Osprey aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2 billion. It came as a surprise as Indonesia was not earlier known to be in the running to buy the MV-22 Ospreys, which are the most expensive rotorcraft in the U.S. and sold only to a handful of foreign customers.

https://www.defenseworld.net/news/2...urofighter_Typhoons_from_Austria#.XysCNIhKi70

Good on them, PAF should have gone for these, being a defensive air force PAF can use T1, it immediately increase its Gen-4 inventory size, plus this acts as a valid counter to Rafael. Imagine if you can get 15 Eurofighters and land them all together in Sargodha on the same day.:pop:
 
Good on them, PAF should have gone for these, being a defensive air force PAF can use T1, it immediately increase its Gen-4 inventory size, plus this acts as a valid counter to Rafael. Imagine if you can get 15 Eurofighters and land them all together in Sargodha on the same day.:pop:

With radars and missiles inferior to what the Block III JF-17 will have?
 
With radars and missiles inferior to what the Block III JF-17 will have?

If T1's radar is inferior why is RAF using T1 exclusively as a QRF unit? Block III is not here yet, even when it will come it is in a different league to EF2000. Lookup T1 block-5 upgrades these were done to all T1 aircrafts.
Only limitation is that T1 is a air superiority fighter it has no other tricks. Air superiority over Pakistani skies is what PAF aspires to achieve in time of war, I fail to understand why they will not go for such a platform.
 
PAF and Eurofighter
PAF and Eurofighter
...
Seriously
???

Kesay kar lete lo yaar:suicide::suicide:
 
If T1's radar is inferior why is RAF using T1 exclusively as a QRF unit? Block III is not here yet, even when it will come it is in a different league to EF2000. Lookup T1 block-5 upgrades these were done to all T1 aircrafts.
Only limitation is that T1 is a air superiority fighter it has no other tricks. Air superiority over Pakistani skies is what PAF aspires to achieve in time of war, I fail to understand why they will not go for such a platform.


RAF is keeping hold of two squadrons for QRA of T1, as you are well aware most of their fleet will be T3 and they will ad Captor AESA radar, also T1 is optimised for AMRAAM.

PAF will have existing infrastructure, pilots and experiance on JF-17. Block III will come with AESA and very capable PL-15 that out performs AMRAAM and Meteor and will be less then half the cost and you still "fail to understand why they will not go for such a platform"!?
 
Na kar bhai aesi bi kiya ghusa :astagh:

It was on the lighter side. Don't you feel it strange that in times when even the status of older Egyptian Mirage-Vs is unknown and here people are dreaming about world's most advanced 4.5G fighter in PAF?
 
There is no case as such to begin with.

Thread closed similar to as the chapter was closed.

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