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The Bunker Group
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The questions now is politics. I don't think this administrations will go ahead with procurement of an aircraft that more or less have similar capabilities with what DI/IAe already or will be manufactured. With the President already make political promised that he will put the domestic products ahead, choosing C-27J when everyone already knows C-295 can be produced by DI, is just adding political ammo for his oppositions to attack. Something that I don't thing even his most dense political adviser will tell him to do (and he's already got some idiot around him though , although also got some pretty smart ones)It really depends on the requirements and the package being offered. It is not as straightforward as the numbers suggest.
The Australians are facing the same dilemma with the C27J and the C295 in contention and yes, the C27J has a higher acquisition cost but is apparently favoured by RAAF.
Alenia/Locheed will not give DI manufacturing license of C-27J, but EADS will and already in the processed for providing DI with license to manufactured and marketed C-295 in Asia Pacific. That move secured EADS 90% of the deal (with only 10% chances if The President wants to make political blunders). RAAF choose C-27J for commonality with C-130J. TNI-AU does not have C-130J, but have CN-235 with share 70%+ commonality with C-295.
The odd for C-295 is just much higher politically and logistically, no matter what TNI-AU wants or think. Just wandering though if TNI-AU brass put higher score with C-27J, in order/hoping that next budgets round say in couple of years will give them C-130J...hmm,tricky ?