Aircraft
Indonesia Receives Its Last Upgraded F-16; Considers Buying Chinooks
After much rework, the Block 25 Fighting Falcons are now Block 52 IDs. CH-47s could follow the AH-64Es now being delivered.
An Indonesian air force F-16C Block 52 ID on a functional test flight from Hill AFB, Utah. (USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd)
An Indonesian air force F-16C Block 52 ID on a functional test flight from Hill AFB, Utah. (USAF photo by Alex R. Lloyd)

The Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU) received the last six of 24 refurbished former U.S. Air Force Lockheed Martin F-16C/D Fighting Falcons this month. Separately, the Indonesian Army (TNI-AD) is mulling a buy of Boeing CH-47 Chinooks, having taken delivery of the first three of eight new Boeing AH-64E Guardians on December 18 .

The F-16 acquisition project is named Peace Bima Sena II and started in 2011 when the TNI-AU agreed to acquire 19 F-16C Block 25s and five F-16Ds. The mothballed F-16s were refurbished and upgraded to Block 52 ID standard by the Ogden Air Logistics Complex in Utah. It was reported that each airframe took 15,000 man-hours to complete.