ISLAMABAD/JAKARTA Jan 12 (Reuters) - Indonesia’s defence minister met Pakistan’s air force chief in Islamabad to discuss a potential deal that includes the sale of combat jets and killer drones to Jakarta, three security officials with knowledge of the meeting on Monday said.
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Indonesia’s Defence Ministry confirmed the meeting between Defence Minister Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin and Pakistan’s Air Chief Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Baber Sidhu.
“The meeting focused on discussing general defence cooperation relations, including strategic dialogue, strengthening communication between defence institutions, and opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation in various fields in the long term,” defence ministry spokesperson Brigadier General Rico Ricardo Sirait told Reuters, adding the talks had not yet led to concrete decisions.
One source said the talks revolved around the sale of JF-17 jets, a multi-role combat aircraft jointly developed by Pakistan and China, and killer drones designed for surveillance and striking targets. The other two sources said the talks were in an advanced stage and involved more than 40 JF-17 jets. One of them said Indonesia was also interested in Pakistan’s Shahpar drones.
The sources did not share any discussions about delivery timelines and the number of years a proposed deal would span.
Reuters exclusive from a Pakistani-based journalist. If its on Reuters then i pressume its reputable
on another news… Second Rafale C spotted! Now bearing T-0318
Confirmation from Swiderek Maciejka himself (the photographer who takes the Rafale photos) that the Rafales are going to Indonesia in 06:10 local time (~4 hours from now) from Istres.
Nah, i really don’t want to play another spitfire… It will be like the 20th or something. Also, the spitfire doesn’t really fit well within the Japanese TT IMHO. I’d much rather want it to be a premium, and let domestic Japanese WWII equipment fill out the lower ranks - with exception to unique and domestically build Thai, Malaysian and Indonesian WWII Aircraft.
I fully agree we need the many missing Japanese vehicles that there already isn’t enough space for.
But I also don’t agree with making more than 20% of any nations aircraft premium only, it’s simply not fair especially for nations like Thailand that don’t get represented outside of War Thunder much, if at all. Thailand shouldn’t just start randomly with the F-84 when they had an airforce as far back as WWI.
For the Spitfire there’s at least two different variants they could add, with the F Mk.XIVe and FR Mk.XIVe, so one can be premium here.
But for others where it’s not that easy I’d rather see them just not add these aircraft until the space for them is there than have them all end up locked behind a paywall forever. At least I have hopes for the rumored “research tree rework” to do something about it, nations shouldn’t compete for very limited techtree space. At the very least they should get their own space for their vehicles.
According to publication by Pekanbaru Airbase, there will be strict OPSEC enforcement from the aircraft (supposed) arrival on 22 January (today) until the 24th.
