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So I thought to start this megathread. It may not interest that many people, but it's still a fun addition to me.
Finland is renewing its aging Hornet fleet in a project known as HX Project (HX-hanke), and we're sending customized RFPs for the countries and companies making them. The candidates are F-35, Super Hornet + Growler, Saab Gripen E/F + Global Eye AWACS, Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
We received answers to our initial RFPs a year ago and received answers at the start of this year and based on those answers we've gone through the first round of negotiations with the manufacturers and governments to come up with a more specific tailored to Finland package and later this autumn we're sending our second and final RFPs after which another final round of negotiations along with test flights and simulations to verify claims will be held in 2020. Based on these our military will make a decision for the new fighter jet system and other systems included in 2021 and recommend it to the government who then either accepts the proposal or can override it and go for a different proposal. The jets will arrive in 2025-2030.
The amount sought by the military is 62-66, and our current government has stated in their government programme that the capacity of our Horners will be replaced in full which has been interpreted to mean an acquisition of 64 new fighters which is the size of the original Hornet acquisition.
The cost for the initial acquisition is estimated to be between 7-10 billion euros which will be funded from outside the regular military budget and instead funded via a loan because our current budget (2.7 bn € a year with something like 700 mn. € for acquisitions) by itself does not make it possible to fund a project of this scale.
Also we're nearing the signing of the deal which will provide our navy four new Pohjanmaa class corvettes to replace seven ships we're retiring.
Finland is renewing its aging Hornet fleet in a project known as HX Project (HX-hanke), and we're sending customized RFPs for the countries and companies making them. The candidates are F-35, Super Hornet + Growler, Saab Gripen E/F + Global Eye AWACS, Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon.
We received answers to our initial RFPs a year ago and received answers at the start of this year and based on those answers we've gone through the first round of negotiations with the manufacturers and governments to come up with a more specific tailored to Finland package and later this autumn we're sending our second and final RFPs after which another final round of negotiations along with test flights and simulations to verify claims will be held in 2020. Based on these our military will make a decision for the new fighter jet system and other systems included in 2021 and recommend it to the government who then either accepts the proposal or can override it and go for a different proposal. The jets will arrive in 2025-2030.
The amount sought by the military is 62-66, and our current government has stated in their government programme that the capacity of our Horners will be replaced in full which has been interpreted to mean an acquisition of 64 new fighters which is the size of the original Hornet acquisition.
The cost for the initial acquisition is estimated to be between 7-10 billion euros which will be funded from outside the regular military budget and instead funded via a loan because our current budget (2.7 bn € a year with something like 700 mn. € for acquisitions) by itself does not make it possible to fund a project of this scale.
Also we're nearing the signing of the deal which will provide our navy four new Pohjanmaa class corvettes to replace seven ships we're retiring.