Fuerza Aérea Indonesia

[Mauricio]

Primer pedido de exportación de este prometedor aparato. ¡Enhorabuena!

Indonesia orders 16 T-50 trainers

By Greg Waldron

Indonesia has placed a $400 million order for 16 Korea Aerospace Industries T-50 Golden Eagle advanced jet trainers, the type's first export sale.

The Indonesian Defense Ministry signed the deal on Wednesday, said Enes Park, executive vice president of KAI. The contract stipulates that the aircraft must be delivered 18 months after the signing of a loan agreement between the South Korean and Indonesian governments.

The announcement follows a 12 April letter the Indonesian government sent to KAI designating the South Korean firm as the preferred bidder to replace Indonesia's BAE Systems Hawk 53s. The letter all but sealed the fate of the T-50's rivals in the competition, the Aero Vodochody L-159 and Yakovlev Yak-130.

The 16 General Electric F404-powered aircraft will be produced at the KAI facilities in Sacheon, South Korea. They will shipped to Indonesia partially disassembled, where Indonesia state aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia/Indonesian Aerospace (IAe) will reassemble them.

"The aircraft is certainly capable of being ferried, but transporting them meets Indonesian industrial regulations," says Park. "(Re-assembling) the aircraft will help them improve their capabilities."

Despite the best efforts of KAI and the South Korean government, theT-50 lost trainer competitions in both the United Arab Emirates and Singapore to the Alenia Aermacchi M-346.

The T-50 will again square off against its rival in Israel and the USA. In 2012, the Israeli Air Force will decide between the T-50 and M-346 to replaces its Douglas A-4 Skyhawk trainers. In early May, Alenia Aermacchi general manager Alessandra Franzoni said America's T-X competition to replace the 1960s era Northrop T-38C will be a two horse race between the T-50 and M-346.

Park adds that there could be a possibility of selling Indonesia the T-50's combat variant, the F/A-50. "While there have been no concrete discussions on this, there is a distinct possibility of this in the future."

Indonesia is also still involved in South Korea's proposed KF-X programme, says Park. At the Farnborough air show in 2010, South Korea signed a memorandum of understanding with Indonesia, with the latter to potentially contribute up to 20% of the KF-X development costs. Indonesia is currently looking at how it might participate in the project.

The T-50 buy is just the latest example of Jakarta's efforts to upgrade the nation's air force. In November 2010, it purchased eight Embraer EMB-314 Super Tucano light attack aircraft to replace Vietnam War-era Rockwell OV-10 Broncos. In January 2011 it awarded Arinc Engineering Services a $66.7 million contract to modernise five Lockheed Martin C-130Bs.

Indonesia is also considering upgrading its 10 Lockheed Martin F-16A/B fighters. Media reports have said Jakarta will buy 24 ex-US Air Force F-16s, but this has not been officially announced by either Washington or Jakarta.

[Mauricio]

La nota de Aviation Week. Una noticia muy importante para el programa luego de haber perdido dos concursos al M-346:

Indonesia Orders 16 T-50s From Korea Aerospace

May 27, 2011

By Bradley Perrett

SEOUL — Korea Aerospace Industries will deliver 16 T-50 Golden Eagle supersonic trainers to Indonesia in 2013 under a $400 million contract.

The deal further deepens defense technology ties between the two countries.

It is a breakthrough for Korea Aerospace, whose previous attempts at exporting the T-50 have all failed. In this case, it prevailed over two other shortlisted candidates, the Yakovlev Yak-130 and the Czech Aero L-159B.

Korea Aerospace will build the 16 aircraft and fly them in South Korea before dissembling them for shipping to Indonesia, where they will be reassembled and put through their final acceptance trials, an industry official says.

Although not announced as such, the version to be built for Indonesia is evidently the TA-50, which can be used as an attack aircraft. The official says the aircraft will have a gun and weapons pylons, features of the TA-50.

Korea Aerospace developed the T-50 series with considerable help from Lockheed Martin. Its platform is based on Lockheed Martin’s F-16, which Indonesia operates. Indonesia’s T-50s will replace BAE Systems Hawk Mk. 53 trainers.

Among other cooperative arms projects, Indonesia and South Korea signed a memorandum of understanding in July to collaborate in developing the latter’s proposed KF-X fighter. South Korea also will help produce Indonesia’s Anoa armored personnel carrier.

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[Apónez]

Pensaba que Indonesia solía adquirir equipo ruso ¿que habrá pasado para que dejasen de lado el Yak-130? Por que los rusos no suelen tener problemas a la hora de vender licencias

[Experten]

Está claro que el T-50 es un avión más completo que el Yak-130, es mucho más pesado, mucho más potente y bastante más desarrollado a estas alturas.

[ASCUA]

El EdA español ya tiene un informe, de primera mano (CLAEX), sobre el italiano y el coreano. Del primo ruso del italiano, por razones obvias, no hay informe. Y referido puramente a cualidades tecnicas...
Obviamente aquí lo que para uno puede valer, para otro no tanto; así que es simplemente la elección es del EdA.
Y ellos prefieren al coreano... :noda:
Debo reconocer que me sorprendió... Así a primera vista el italiano pone sobre la mesa mas "moderneces" que el coreano, lo que, a priori, le haría partir con ventaja, pienso yo.
Pero está claro que algo tiene el coreano que, para sustituir a nuestros F-5B le pone claramente en ventaja sobre el italiano.

[Zabopi]

¡Hola!
Imagen de los T-50 indonesios.

[reytuerto]

Hola a todos:
Hace un par de anos vi una maqueta de una version monoplaza de TA-50. Saben si los esfuerzos en esta direccion han proseguido? Saludos cordiales.

[ecuatoriano]

[ecuatoriano]

Ciertamente los indonesios hicieron una buena elección.

[Zabopi]

¡Hola!
Entregados los 16 T-50 adquiridos por Indonesia.
http://miragec14.blogspot.com.es/2014/02/south-korea-completes-delivery-of-16-t.html

[Zabopi]

¡Hola!
Accidente de un T-50 indonesio.
http://nasional.tempo.co/read/news/2015 ... h-di-yogya
Por desgracia, ambos pilotos han fallecido.

[JRIVERA]

Lamentable accidente del KAI T-50 Golden Eagle, en el video se aprecia que cayo en picada, despues de haber ascendido casi verticalmente.

[Silver_Dragon]

Indonesia está desarrollando una versión cañonera basada en el CN-235
https://www.janes.com/article/82627/ind ... 5-aircraft

[Zabopi]

¡Hola!
La comidilla de la semana, Austria ha confirmado el interés indonesio por sus EFAS.
https://alert5.com/2020/07/20/austria-c ... ofighters/
Vale que son de la tranche uno, pero siempre serán mejores que los F-5 que vienen a sustituir y te ahorras posibles sanciones al adquirir el SU-35.

[Urbano Calleja]

Vale que son de la tranche uno, pero siempre serán mejores que los F-5 que vienen a sustituir y te ahorras posibles sanciones al adquirir el SU-35.

Con F-16 upgraded y Su-27 en servicio... ¿para qué? Es un sinsentido.

El coste de operación es una locura para las prestaciones que ofrecen. Y disponiendo de esos otros modelos ir a por los Tifon es una estupidez.
Reemplazas (si acaso) a los F-5 por LIFT's o entrenadores avanzados. O los dejas morir.

Saludos