Indonesia will deploy its Su-35s at Makassar

The Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force (TNI-AU), Air Chief Marshal (ACM) Hadi Tjahjanto, disclosed that the 11 Su-35s being procured will be delivered and station at Makassar initially.

By Dmitry Terekhov from Odintsovo, Russian Federation (Sukhoi Su-35S) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons



This is because the current F-5 base in Madiun, East Java does not have the infrastructure to support the Russian fighter.