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Originally Posted by BenRoethig
I don't know what your current status is with your neighbors, but both Indonesia and Malaysia have Su-30Mks.
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Our status with our neighbours is about the best its ever been, the ADF has a formal alliance with Malaysia and Singapore in the form of the Five-Power agreement, and we help the Malaysians run their Air Defence network. The TNI (Indonesian Military) is basically a territorial defence force and will remain so for a very long time to come, plus the independence of East Timor removed the only plausible flash-point between the Commonwealth and the Republik. Besides, the point is, even if we could get you guys to agree to sell F-22s, we'd only be able to buy about 25 of them.
If the JSF completely falls apart then it'll have to be an EU warplane I suppose, but we'll see...