Eurofighter consortium proposed assembly line in Indonesia

Should Indonesia pick the Eurofighter to replace its F-5 Tiger, the Eurofighter consortium will shift the assembly line in Spain to Indonesia.

Typhoon of 17 Squadron undergoing ACM checks
By SAC Mark Dixon (Defence Imagery) [OGL], via Wikimedia Commons

“If Indonesia decided to pick the Typhoon, we can move the final assembly line from Getafe to Bandung,” said Martin Elbourne, Eurofighter’s Head of Industrial Offset.

Elbourne also suggested that conformal fuel tanks (CFT) for the Eurofighter could be designed, tested and produced in Indonesia.

Source: Alert 5