Indonesia to buy 11 Su-35 Flanker jets from Russia.
According to the information released by The Jakarta Post on Aug. 4., Indonesia is going to barter its resources, including coffee, to acquire the Russian Su-35 supermaneuverable fighter aircraft.
The whole deal is to be directed by an Indonesian state-owned company – PT Perusahaan Perdagangan, collaborating with Rostec. The Parties in question, as The Jakarta Post reports, have signed a memorandum of understanding, assuming that Indonesian agricultural commodities would be traded for the Russian fighter aircraft, specifically 11 examples of the Su-35 jets.
Jakarta, in exchange, is to provide Russia with, among other goods, coffee, palm oil, or tea, as the Indonesian Trade Minister, Enggartiasto “Enggar” Lukita, stated, during his official visit to Russia which ended on Aug. 5.
The aforesaid deal is a clear sign that Russia is trying to find a variety of workarounds in order to mitigate the effects sanctions have on its economy. Indeed, during our recent trip to Moscow for MAKS 2017, high prices could have been noticed in case of commodities, the trade exchange of which has been limited by the EU or the US, e.g. apples.
The Indonesian officials interpret the above situation as a major opportunity also to expand and deepen the collaboration with Russia beyond the trading area in fields like tourism, student exchange, energy or technology – according to the statement made for The Jakarta Post by the Indonesian Trade Minister.
The Sukhoi Su-35 is a Russian jet fighter considered to belong to the 4++ generation, with its supermaneuverability capabilities demonstrated during this year’s edition of the Moscow MAKS Aviasalon.
Image Credit: Jacek Siminski
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Coffee and palm oil? That’s about all they’re worth!
You forgot to mention the amount of coffee and palm oil. That’s several freighters for sure. You could also buy an Audi or BMW for coffee and palm oil if the seller accepts it. That doesn’t devalue the car. It’s the amount that makes the difference.
thats a lot of coffee to buy a fighter jet I would imagine
145 million Russians can drink a lot of coffee.
The US government does much the same on an interagency basis. From America’s finest news source ….
http://www.theonion.com/article/bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-reaches-trade-a-537
Lmao, this is too embarassing even for Russian standards.
If this isn’t the most pitiful circumstance that well defines the economic and military collapse of poor, hapless Russia, I don’t know what is.
Can anyone here even imagine the U.S. selling F-35s for olives or shredded coconut? Give me a break!
Once again, as we did with the USSR by taking the floor out from underneath the price of oil, Russia is collapsing. They were warned. Their Navy is a complete joke too. Can someone please call a priest? Russia and its pitiful military needs to be read its last rites.
Welcome to the Third World Russia. You’re in good company (Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Russia).
You completely lost yourself in those lies you’re spreading here. How a deal like this can be defined as an economic and military collapse? If some collapse would really happening, then surely they wouldn’t selling expensive fighter jets through the exchange trade for some natural resources but for money!
This just once again proves that sanctioning of Russia and dropping of oil prices can’t never lay Russia to the knees! So deal with it.
“Can anyone here even imagine the U.S. selling F-35s for olives or shredded coconut? Give me a break!”
No, no one can imagine it, because almost everyone knows that $18 trillion debt wouldn’t allow to the U.S. selling weapons for nothing but for money.
“Once again, as we did with the USSR by taking the floor out from underneath the price of oil, Russia is collapsing.”
Is a well known fact that the collapse of the USSR was caused mostly by the USSR itself, so stop wasting time with creating fake illusions.
“They were warned.”
And what happened then? Did Russia return the Crimea back to Ukraine? Did Russia stop support separatists in Ukraine (as Western media claims)? Did Russia stop annihilating terrorists groups that U.S. supports in Syria?
Nuclear superpower doesn’t have to care about anyone’s desperate warnings.
“Their Navy is a complete joke too.”
Said no qualified military expert ever. Only individuals, who lives in a bubble of selfdeception and have a need for repeating such BS over and over again, probably for a need of better sleep.
“Welcome to the Third World Russia. You’re in good company (Venezuela, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Russia).”
Yeah, and also with China, India and Brazil, one of the largest economics in the world and biggest importers of Russian weapons.
Meanwhile U.S. and NATO are messing with poor EU countries that can’t even afford 2% of their GDP for military spending.
Welcome to the reality!