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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Indonesian Aerospace to develop CN-235 for anti-submarine role

CN-235 PersuaderIndonesian Aerospace (IaE) plans to develop an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant of the CN-235 turboprop and hopes to offer the aircraft to countries in the region.

The state-owned company's president, Budi Wuraskito, told the official Antara news agency that IaE had sent about 40 engineers to Turkey to learn how to manufacture ASW aircraft.

"We already have the technology for the production of such aircraft," he says, while not revealing where it has been acquired from. "They [the engineers] now have the experience to assemble and modify aircraft of that type."

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