This is the first time for Su-30MK2 take part in Pitch Black Exercise (photo : Kaskus Militer)
Indonesia Sending Top-Secret Aircraft for Role in War Games
Indonesia Sending Top-Secret Aircraft for Role in War Games
INDONESIA is
sending its front-line Sukhoi jet fighters to take part in Australia's largest
air combat exercise later this month, signalling a new era of enhanced defence
co-operation.
The
Indonesian air force has never given the Australian Defence Force access to the
Russian-made aircraft, which were built to compete with the United States'
fourth generation jet fighters.
But four of
the Sukhoi SU-30s will be flown to the Northern Territory to take part in
Exercise Pitch Black 2012, which will include mock combat battles with
Australian FA-18s in Australian and Indonesian airspace.
US jet
fighters will take part in the exercise, which will run from July 27 to August
17 and will be commanded from Darwin and Tindal air bases.
John
Farrell, a military analyst, said the decision to send the Sukhoi fighters to
Australia would bring defence co-operation between the ADF and Indonesian
military to an unprecedented level.
''Indonesia
has never before been prepared to send its primary air defence asset to a
foreign nation,'' Mr Farrell, who publishes the Australian & NZ Defender
Magazine, said.
''The fact
they are sending them to Australia indicates that Canberra and Jakarta have
looked up and seen much greater threats around them,'' he said, referring to
China and India.
''The Sukhoi
[SU-30s] are Indonesia's most secret air defence asset … this shows a lot of
trust towards Australia a decade after relations between the two defence forces
were in deep freeze over East Timor.''
The decision
is also a vote of confidence in the defence relationship after Indonesia
expressed concern over US marines operating from a joint facility in Darwin.
The
Indonesian Air Force spokesman, Colonel Agung Sasongko Jati, confirmed to the
Herald the plan to send jets to Australia for Pitch Black.
He said the
air force had needed to train its pilots in flying the new aircraft before they
could deploy them in the joint exercise.
Indonesia's
air force has been on a buying spree recently with the next-generation
Russian-built Sukhoi jets. It already operates 10 Sukhoi-27s and four
Sukhoi-30MK2 jets, and recently announced a new order for six Sukhoi-30MK2
fighters.
A joint
communique issued after the July 3 meeting between Indonesia's President Susilo
Bambang Yudhoyono and the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, said that
''co-operation between Australian and Indonesian defence forces goes from strength
to strength'' and encouraged senior defence officials in both countries to
''review existing security co-operation''.
Australia
and Indonesia are negotiating to establish a Defence Co-operation Arrangement.
(The Age)
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