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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Indonesia aims to buy planes, submarines

C-130H HerculesIndonesia is in talks with the United States to buy Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules transport planes and might be in a position to buy fighter jets and submarines in 2-3 years, its defence minister said.

Juwono Sudarsono told Reuters on Saturday after talks with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that no final agreement had yet been reached on the transport planes, a possible first step in upgrading its military.

"With Gates we discussed the possibility of Hercules ... but because the market of that particular plane is quite tight we have to wait our turn," Sudarsono said in an interview.

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2 comments:

  1. Pete4/6/09 17:35

    Hi Kobus. I think your link dropped out. I found the story at http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/SE%2BAsia/Story/STIStory_383662.html

    Regards

    Pete

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  2. Unknown4/6/09 19:03

    Thanks Pete, link adjusted.

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