Turkey has signed a contract for the purchase of 48 KAAN (TAI) fighter jets (TAI) by the Indonesian government, as the country of Southeast Asia seeks to modernize its overwhelming Air Force material. In the context of the project, Jakarta also ordered 42 Dassault Aviation fighters from France in 2022, while still considering it to have a J-10 (Chengdu) fighters from China and F-15EX (Boeing) from the US. Jakarta and Ankara signed a “applicable contract” on Saturday, on the sidelines of the defense industry in Istanbul, according to a spokesman for the Indonesian Defense Ministry. No details of the amount to be spent or the delivery dates. Kaan, the first fighter aircraft designed and developed by the Turkish military industry, made its first test flight in February 2024, but its serial production is not expected to begin despite 2028 in the earliest. The Turkish defense industry that […]
Source: News Beast
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