Air Force wants new aircraft
JAKARTA: The Indonesian Air Force plans to procure several new jet fighters to replace old ones such as the OV-10 Bronco, Hawk MK-53, F-5 Tiger and F-16 Fighting Falcon, the force's chief said Thursday.
"A team has already conducted a study and provided some input which we will submit (to the government) after 2009," Air Force chief of staff Marshall Herman Prayitno said as quoted by Antara in Bandung, West Java, after presiding over the handing over of the post of commander of the Air Force Staff and Command School.
He said the team had concluded that the Air Force needed to have three new types of aircraft, namely the L-159 light attack jet made in the Czech Republic, the K-8 trainer jet from China and turboprop trainer KO-1 B from South Korea, the next generation of the KT-1 Wong Bee currently used by Indonesian Air Force.
Herman said that although the study was completed, the Air Force had not yet decided which aircraft would be bought first.
"The Air Force still has to consider the capability of the new aircraft ... We hope they could perform various missions, especially to replace the ground attack role of the OV-10 Bronco, the ambush function of the F-5, as well as the trainer function." -- JP
Jsem zvedavy jak se Cesi prosadi mezi Cinany a Jihokorejci, ktere maji na Indonesii daleko, daleko silnejsi paky. V listopadu 2006 sice navstivil Jakartu cesky namestek ministra obrany, ale spojil to i s navstevou Bali, coz ukazuje pracovni charakter navstevy a serioznost usili L-159 konecne nekomu střelit. Rád bych se mylil.
