Indonesia agreed to join a South Korean project to develop jet fighters and may buy 50 of the aircraft.
Indonesia plans to contribute 20 percent of development costs for KF-X fighters and will cooperate on manufacturing and marketing, South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration said in a statement posted on its website.
Indonesia plans to contribute 20 percent of development costs for KF-X fighters and will cooperate on manufacturing and marketing, South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration said in a statement posted on its website.
When in 1974 the Government of Indonesia decided to boost the development of the aircraft industry as part of its national development program, a strategy for industrial transformation was progressively formulated.
The establishment of the presently known PT. Dirgantara Indonesia marked the initiation of the strategy for industrial transformation. This strategy, reformulated in the inaugural address of the author as an Honorary Fellow at The German Aeronautical Society, DGLR in 1978.
The essence is aimed to develop the technological capability of Indonesia as a backbone for its national development appropriate to its socio-cultural setting in the modern word by starting from the end product and ending with its generic elements.
The company has CN-235 joint design production with CASA of Spain can be shown as a living example of this phase. PT Dirgantara Indonesia continued to the development of the company own version of CN-235, such as CN-235-MIL equipped with advanced cockpit compatible with NVG (Night Vision Goggle) for tactical night flying capability, CN-235-MPA with integrated mission avionics and FLIR (Forward Looking Infra Red); modified NBO-105 with digital cockpit and EFIS (Electronic Flight Instrumentation System).
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