Gundala
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I second this.What i can said it is, Prabowo came in prepared and had many bargaining chips on his pocket. There is lot of negotiation, not that we can get everything what we want, but the other sides too want to secure many thing as possible as they can. Win Win Solution and every body smile at the end of time is important here. Prabowo spend a lot of resource to be able to flight directly to USA,surely he is not in the mood for pleasure visit LoL.
By respecting the talk with US our dephan also not officially said that Austria, Germany, Turky, France as the next destination. But the intended "leak" by insider told us that he is going there anyway, now this can be seen as a msg to US that if both parties failed to reach an agreemant then he prolly going to take the business elsewhere.
Budget wise (for fighter) its prolly going to be USD 1.1 Bil (from SU-35 budget post) with additional extra budget this year from PLN. With Iver/Submarine big purchase over the horizon and possibly P8/Tanker/EWA as well in this last part of MEF, I have a wild guess that this year budget for fighter would be around USD 1.5 Bil. So the total should be around USD 2.6 bil give or take (keep in mind its a wild guess by looking at the last couple of year total budget approved for PLN & our past fighter purchase budget).
So what can we get from around USD 2 bil? What would be interesting to see is the PLN budget is for brand new fighters/assets, but can the PLN be used for all brand new avionics/engine for the upgraded use F-16 platform if the fighter it self is free? Its possible tho it doesnt change the fact that it will cost more politically domestic wise as there is a law preventing us to buy used def assets. Idk how the govt going to spin this politically.