Lockheed Martin offering Joint Development with their Indago 4 Drone if Philippines gets their F-16C

Lockheed Martin offering Joint Development with their Indago 4 Drone if Philippines gets their F-16C Fighting Falcon Aircraft

The Inquirer reported recently that the United States (US) Company “Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC)” is also offering, among other Things, the Joint Development of their “Indago 4 Unmanned Aerial System (UAS)” if the Philippines gets their F-16C Fighting Falcon Aircraft for the Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) Multi Role Fighter (MRF) Program.

The Indago 4 is a small Reconnaissance and Surveillance Drone that weighs less than four kilograms, and whose main Equipment are swappable Day or Night Cameras. The Day Camera has a maximum zoom Capability of 30 times magnification while the Night Camera can magnify less at up to 16 times.

The Drone has a maximum Flight Time per Battery of 50 to 70 minutes, has a maximum range of 10 km and can fly up to 40 kilometers per hour.

MY THOUGHTS:
This is just a small, unarmed Drone, but since we are not mass producing any Military-grade Drone here in our Country then I think this will be a good addition to the Philippines’ Manufacturing Sector. However, frankly I think that this is still not enough of an incentive for getting those F-16s since they cost so much, remember as I posted before, it costs more than the Bataan-Cavite Interlink Bridge.

But any opposition to this sale of these F-16s might be useless as, based on some of LMC’s recent moves, and despite two high-ranking Officials of the Bong Bong Marcos (BBM) Administration denying that the Philippines has already selected it, it looks like its sale will, indeed, push thru.

I plan to discuss more about this later on a separate Post, but like it or not, the Signs are there that the US will strong arm the sale of these Aircraft to the Philippines ...

SOURCES:
* https://globalnation.inquirer.net/279767/us-govt-expected-to-make-f-16-sale-offer-to-ph-soon
* https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/indago-vtol-uav.html

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