Well yes, they are getting removed now, but they were added march and june 2024, the f-18s were on march 2025, so they came roughly 1 year before the f18s and stayed 1 year after the f-18s
The F2 was added in june 2025, so it could get a replacement this year and stay until june 2027
The King of Malaysia inspected the Su-57 T-50-9 prototype two days ago at Zhukovsky Airport in Moscow. This is an interesting development from the previous rumours of Su-57 procurement by Malaysia.
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A delegation led by the Royal Thai Air Force Commander traveled to Sweden to visit Saab’s aircraft production facilities, where Thailand’s first Gripen E has already entered the production line.
https://x.com/ThaiEnquirer/status/2054515914255839684
https://x.com/wuthi11_/status/2054809405242417513?s=20
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Japan seems to be only exporting ships at this second as that is her prized industry and the one that needs these orders more then ever. China and Korea have gobbled up most of the civil contacts for years.
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All computer so much computer.
Glass cockpits are cool looking but IRL they have less accidents contributed to them but if something goes wrong it goes wrong. Also is the touchscreen still an issue for fighter planes or is that only in the civil sector? Or left to the pilot where you have two options to get it to do what you want.
There is also voice activated controls being dumped out everywhere.
I heard news Malaysia is interested in KF-21 or SU-57E the most
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I don’t know anything about ASEAN weaponry but is there a picture of the Indonesian MiG-19 equipped with that rocket pod that is implied it can use in the image below?(I’m not sure if it is a B-8M1)
I’m not so much of a top tier person so a MiG-19S with 40 rockets sounds very interesting
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It’s UB-16-57 rocket pod, containing 16 S-5 unguided rockets in each pod. AFAIK I haven’t seen a photo of Indonesian MiG-19 with it, although to be fair there’s not many photos of MiG-19s in service, as the Indonesians disliked them (to say the least)
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Also forgot to post here but the recent Balikatan 2026 made history as Japan’s most largescale participation in any of the Southeast Asian hosted military exercises. Photo dump inbound!
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“yesterday” there is talking about the J-10B & Su-35 that we’re buying
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Lol so Malaysia AND Indonesia seem interested in the Felon
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It’s a good plane and it has been exported
Because we didn’t have that much of options. F-35 definitely no, J-20 also having geopolitical security threat, at the end there only the Felon that still on the table for choosing
J20 is not exported, the j-35 is.
And there is the kaan and the kf21 who is on list with the felon
Although they are both still is trail phase, so su57 is the only deal, plus russian tend to be open for customization like the customer want. Even sometime offer side deal like su35
Kaan is still under development, it will be a good option if the Turks can get it done before the evaluation process begin
its planned to be delivered for the Turks and Indonesia starting in 2032 (so about 6 years)
IDK, but I don’t think is enough time for the avionics and weaponary system, especially when the geopolitics situations of Turkiye right now is quite worrying
IIRC the only major concerns is in regards to the engines, so who knows