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A confomred order from customer.What is Indonesia's role in this project?
What is Indonesia's role in this project?
It is a joint production, we have sent about 35-37 engineers to help the project, beside that we provide 20 % funding. Other related industries like our radar and electronics also has been urged to contribute, I have posted the article about it but in Indonesian language (our military thread). When the program was postponed we keep conducting research in Indonesia.
Korean Fighter Experiment (KFX)
Indonesian Fighter Experiment (IFX)
Why doesn't it have internal bays?
KIDA, once more trying to interrupt the development of KFX / IFX ; enemy inside.
Korea Institute for Defense Analysis or so called KIDA is once more trying to interrupt the development of KFX. Recently before several months, they have announced the '7th feasibility study' which got massive oppositions from civilians and medias. Currently, they are delaying the '7th feasibility test with many ridiculous reasons to interrupt the development of Korean indigenoud fighter jet, KFX. They are already known as the objectors of KFX, which they are even doubt as the 'traitors' of the country, foolish and once more, ridiculous. The consultations with Lockheed Martin as TAC (Technical Advisory Company) and Indonesia as partner has been done and the budget for R&D has been secured. I and many other Koreans currently cannot understand this action, which if this continues, the development of KFX is delayed once more until next year. What Korean government should do is to ignore KIDA and continue the development process. KIDA should be disbanded for KFX's smoother development,
- KF-X jet’s initial operating capability is to be scheduled for 2025
- The KIDA assessed the KF-X development would cost about 9.6 trillion won (US $93 billion), but it expects the cost would be doubled if the jet is a twin-engine design.
- “A new fighter aircraft is a massive endeavor at the best of times, and wildly unrealistic technical expectations do not help the project,” Lee Ju-hyung, a senior researcher at the KIDA said.
- Kim Dae-young, a member of the Korea Defense and Security Forum, a Seoul-based private think tank, was worried if potential cost overruns would eventually hinder the development of indigenous avionics systems.
- “Under the original KF-X plan, [active electronically scanned array] radars and other avionics shall be developed locally, but if development costs increase, those systems are likely to be adopted from foreign defense companies inevitably,” Kim said.
- The KF-X is a 4.5-generation fighter
- The funding for the remaining 20 percent remains unclear, as KAI is expected to bear part of the money.
We need Indonesia's attention on this and also their help to avoid KIDA getting involved in KFX. They don't have any plans but they just want to stop KFX ongoing.Good to see Korean here....
I hope the project will be restarted soon, Indonesia is still continuing the research until now.....
@Red Mahura I guess KIDA has a valid point.They estimate that KFX would cost north of $150bil for the government. Currently Korea's social security and welfare are not in good position and tax base is not that strong. The chaebol dominated economy doesn't help either. I think I've heard that Korean government already struggles with providing the elderly with basics of life. Such a project would only add to woes. With the aging of the Korean society government needs to increase the tax. Any increase in consumption tax would hurt Korean already weak consumption(Korea is an export driven economy with strong export and weak domestic consumption) and increase in corporate tax will encourage the companies to move out of Korea. I think Korea needs to cut all these unnecessary projects otherwise it will end up like Japan; a bankrupt and poor country which can only see its standards of life quickly going down.
Japan currently and lost decades suffered the same problem. After the consumption tax hike in 1995 they suffered from low consumer spending and deflation. High corporate tax made Japan unatractive for both foreign and domestic companies. This along with deflation severely hurt investment in Japanese economy which resulted in lost technological edge and inefficencies in infrastructure and workforce so no one wanted to hire Japanese workforce and public debt soured so the Japanese got poorer so they spent less which resulted in deflation and the death cycle repeated itself. In the meantime eorporate executive mindset changed from innovation to cost cutting and this is why you see no big Japanese company be born and already powerful ones get weaker day by day.
So do you want Korea to follow the same path? They worry about such scenario.