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Lima 2011
Langkawi International Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition
Langkawi, Malaysia
6 - 10 December 2011
Russian
aircraft at Lima 2011 press release
New contract for the Russian aviation industry with the sale of six Su-30
fighter aircraft for Indonesia.
Russia
started the first day at the Lima Air Show 2011 in Malaysia with a preliminary
agreement on the delivery of six Su-30MK2
fighters to Indonesia, the Kommersant business daily said on Wednesday,
December 7, 2011.
Kommersant
cited a Russian source at the talks with Indonesia during the LIMA-2011
arms show on the main island of Langkawi as saying that a contract on
the Su-30MK2
delivery could be signed as early as by the end of 2011.
The source did not specify the price of the contract as it would depend
on the array of weaponry to be installed on the aircraft according to
Indonesian specifications.
However, an anonymous source in the Indonesian delegation said the contract
could be worth at least $500 million.
Russia’s state-arms exporter Rosoboronexport refused to comment
on the negotiations.
Russia recently completed a $300-million contract signed in 2007 on the
delivery of three Su-30MK2
and three Su-27SKM fighters to Jakarta in addition to two Su-27SK and
two Su-30MK fighters purchased in 2003.
Indonesian Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said in October 2010 that
his country needed a full-size squadron of 16 Su-family fighters. The
Su-30MK2s are optimized as naval strike fighters.
Jakarta became one of Russia's main arms buyers in 1999 when the United
States tightened an embargo on arms sales to the country over alleged
human rights violations
The
Indian local made light combat aircraft (LCA), Tejas LSP-7, made its
maiden flight on Friday, March 10, 2012. The Limited Series Production-7
aircraft took off from the HAL airport at 4.27 pm and flew for 28 minutes.
