WASHINGTON — Years after announcing a deal, Boeing is ending plans to sell its F-15EX Eagle II fighter jet to Indonesia, the company confirmed today.
The planemaker previously planned to sell Jakarta up to 24 F-15EXs, dubbed the F-15ID, after an agreement was announced by both parties in 2023. The State Department cleared the sale in 2022. The memorandum of understanding signed at the time did not include timelines or price tags for the deal.
In the over two years since the acquisition was announced, the Indonesian government never formalized plans to procure the aircraft. Seemingly as result, Boeing appears to be ditching the deal.
A company spokesperson confirmed to Breaking Defense today that the Indonesia campaign is no longer active. Bernd Peters, vice president of business development and strategy for Boeing’s defense unit, revealed the F-15 bid is defunct in a briefing at the Singapore Airshow, according to Aviation Week.
Prior to the F-15 campaign, Indonesia bought eight AH-64 Apache attack helicopters from Boeing, which the company completed delivery of in 2018. Boeing has also marketed other defense products to Jakarta like the CH-47 Chinook, according to its website.
F-15EX production recently hit a snag when workers at Boeing’s St. Louis site went on strike, resulting in months of halted work. The strike ended in November, and the US Air Force celebrated the resumption of deliveries the following month.
An upgraded version of the legacy F-15, the F-15EX sports enhancements like a modernized electronic warfare suite, among other features. Boeing boasts the jet can carry more payload than any other fighter.
Following years of fluctuating fleet plans, the F-15EX got a boost from the Trump administration, whose fiscal 2026 budget disclosed plans to buy up to 129 of the fighters. Boeing is currently ramping up its production rate to two dozen jets per year by FY27, according to an Air Force report, which stated that additional funding for facilities could expand that rate to 36 aircraft annually.
According to Aviation Week, despite the collapse of the Indonesia deal, Peters said company officials believe the jet “will continue to have a very bright future in the region.”
Jakarta has made other fighter jet moves in the meantime. Last year, Indonesian officials inked a deal with Turkish representatives to procure 48 KAAN fifth-generation jets from manufacturer Turkish Aerospace Industries, marking Ankara’s first successful major international sale of the aircraft.