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To: James C. Bennett; Oztrich Boy; Yorlik803; IndianChief

The likes of South Korea, India, Singapore and Thailand all rule them out since they have been Israeli customers for a while and have (relative) transparency regarding these deals.

Taiwan would have been too politically hot for Israel to handle since the Chinese would have known very early.

An educated guess would be either Vietnam or Indonesia. Both are trying to diversify away from Russian systems but don’t have the clout to purchase everything they want from the West. So Israel is a reasonable bet. A couple of years ago, there were reports that Israel was planning to sell/had sold UAVs to Indonesia.


6 posted on 01/13/2012 7:50:49 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
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Kinda skeptical Indonesia (worlds largest Muslim country) would make a 1.6 billion dollar deal with Israel. Indonesia has been very vocal anti-Israel country. This deal will not remain a secret for too long in this day and age. The world will eventually know. And it is not going to go down very well with Muslims in Indonesia and elsewhere. Indonesia didn't accept any Israeli systems on the Su-30 MKI, highly unlikely they would go ahead and make a 1.6 billion dollar deal secretly.
8 posted on 01/13/2012 9:36:12 AM PST by ravager
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