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Old 8th Dec 2022, 13:10
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FWIW, the V-22 is similarly quite expensive. There is a small set of potential (wealthy enough) customers for it.
Japan, for the moment, is the sole FMS success.
Israel was interested but decided that it was not quite what they wanted. (I am guessing that price informed quite a bit of that choice not to proceed).
India was interested in purchasing six attack version V-22s for rapid troop insertion in border areas back in 2016.
Indonesia may still be interested.
On 6 July 2020, the U.S. State Department announced that they had approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia of eight Block C MV-22s and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2 billion. The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency notified Congress of this possible sale.
Valor may run into a similar obstacle if the price point is too high.
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