Macron announced that Indonesia will purchase the Rafale fighter jets developed by Dassault once again! Focus on one sentence, "purchase again," which means the previous contract worth $8.1 billion for 42 Rafale fighter jets is void! A new procurement contract for the Rafale fighter jets will be signed, meaning France will take a big loss. The unit price of the Rafale fighter jets is likely to drop significantly! To be honest, it's appropriate for Indonesia to buy the Rafale fighter jets, but the price was just too high. Now that the negotiation has succeeded in cutting the price, naturally a new contract will be signed.
From the very beginning, the blogger thought that Indonesia would not buy the J-10C fighter jets because the deposit for the Rafale fighter jets had already been transferred to France. If they don't want the Rafale fighter jets at this time, all the deposits will be wasted, which is an outcome that Indonesia cannot bear.
This time, Macron's visit to Indonesia mainly aims to finalize the new contract. The procurement of Rafale fighter jets will continue, but the unit price will be significantly reduced. As for exactly how much it will be reduced to, it is certainly a commercial secret. France must not publicly announce the new pricing. Once it is reannounced, all countries that have ordered the Rafale fighter jets and have not yet received them will need to renegotiate their contracts, such as the UAE and Serbia. Their deposits for the Rafale fighter jets have already been paid, but they haven't received any aircraft. They will definitely need to renegotiate their contracts and new orders, but the final amount remains unknown to the blogger.
The blogger boldly predicts that the unit price of the Rafale fighter jets purchased by Indonesia will directly drop from $20 million per unit to $10 million per unit, or even less than $10 million. Otherwise, Indonesia would never buy them. After all, the J-10C fighter jets only cost $6 million each, and for the inferior Rafale fighter jets to sell for $10 million each is already considered fortunate. Moreover, the F-35 fighter jets sold by the U.S. are only $8 million each. The Rafale fighter jets are so expensive, there must be something wrong with them.
Therefore, Indonesia will definitely bargain, and France will have to accept it even if they don't want to. Because if the Rafale fighter jets lose the deal, France will face various predicaments and have no room for negotiation. France should consider itself lucky that Indonesia did not cancel the order but merely signed a new contract. This is already the best possible outcome. France shouldn't complain; this result is already a win-win situation for everyone.
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