So what u want is 2 type of drone, 1 is technologically superior, another just commercial off the shelf cheap drone which we wrote the AI for surveilant purposes.

No one going to do the good old day of buying plenty of small ship then put themselves in harm way to detonate mines rather than get a big ship full of drones.

We also not flying in contested airspace thus TB2 which cost more than a helo is not exactly the best buy either
https://internationalaviationhq.com/2020/09...st-helicopters/

Isn't that what you always wanted?

A sovereign self design self invent weapon systems
If you want that then Just go throw the money at aerodyne

https://vulcanpost.com/763444/aerodyne-mala...providers-2021/

Go ask them wherever it's possible to wrote an AI to limit the amount of human operators and run automatically and only allert if something suspicious happened on something cheap like the fullmar.
TB2 are not technological superior at all.
It's just a normal drone operated remotely by human not an AI drone.
You ain't going to do a swarmed attack with it nor it's resistance towards jammers. Good enough to hunt down technological inferior insurgent or Armenian. You ain't going to fight Russian backed group with it nor ain't going to be a loyal wingman. Doesn't really help us find PATI nor help us fight Chinese.  What do you propose we bought it for?

What do you propose we bought it for?

Isn't that what you always wanted?

A sovereign self design self invent weapon systems

Great plans if you what you have a Lego set and every equipment run windows & connect with USB C with plug & play. Then run McFee antivirus software to keep the Chinese out
Take note that

1)putting the Ceaser gun on a new truck double the price up.

2) f35 overall software cost $10 bil & block 4 upgraded software cost $1.3 billion.

3) Saab global eyes with is basically moving errie eyes equipment + off the shelf MPA equipment into a new jet body cost $1 billion each to UAE, 300 to 400% more then a wedgetail for RAF.

You can only plug & play if someone else had pay the intergration cost like ESSM + gowind, AESA + hornet, 737 + aew antenna, atr72 + mpa equipment.

What you can't do is add $100 mil for aew radar + existing A320 = $100 mil A320 AEWC. What you can do is add $100 mil to existing 737 + $50 mil upgrade cost or get an existing A330 & pay $50 mil to get A330 MRTT. If it's that simple RAF would not buy wedgetail nor German would buy the Poseidon since they are shareholders of airbuses ain't they? If they do they can expect to pay $1 billion each like the UAE did with global eyes.

Similarly, can't just add  $2 mil AESA radar + $30 mil FA/50 = $32 mil AESA capable FA/50.  If it's that simple Ph won't be looking at F16 & Gripen C rather than pay for software upgraded on the FA/50 won't they? Saab is offering Gripen c to pH at $60 mil a pop btw.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1153692

As for the LCA, RMAF has a budget of about $1.7 billion to buy 36 LCA. Thus the budget for a BVR capable LCA is around $50 mil a pop. 
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nst.com.my...cquire-lca-jets

It's mean the software upgrade cost for FA-50 amount to $720 mil to $1 billions. (Off course LM did promise to upgrade the F35 software for $712 mil though it's now cost more than $1.3 billion)

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/549490-f...million-overrun

not to mention the risk of delayed like the 6 years delay for our new varient of little bird.

So again. Your  gravely miscalculated on the complexity & cost also the risk of delayed of weapon intergration and thus come with a misleading conclusion that ATM general is not bright.
How is paying $1.7 billion ($700 mil is R&D for software development) for upgraded  FA50,  to achieve the whole BVR capable LCA who also a LIFt that can do interceptors  program better then  Just get a normal LIFT then $300 mil to retrofitted 2 existing 737 into a wedgetail then spend the rest upgrading Kuwaiti hornet or instead of wedgetail buy some amraam for NASAMs & $100 mil for ground radar.

Just wait for someone else desperate enough to pay the intergration cost of AESA into a lift like turkeministan paid for the M346FA. Or just get M346FA and forget about it ever being an interceptors. It's pretty much risk free solutions.

1)putting the Ceaser gun on a new truck double the price up.

2) f35 overall software cost $10 bil & block 4 upgraded software cost $1.3 billion.

3) Saab global eyes with is basically moving errie eyes equipment + off the shelf MPA equipment into a new jet body cost $1 billion each to UAE, 300 to 400% more then a wedgetail for RAF.

You can only plug & play if someone else had pay the intergration cost like ESSM + gowind, AESA + hornet, 737 + aew antenna, atr72 + mpa equipment.

What you can't do is add $100 mil for aew radar + existing A320 = $100 mil A320 AEWC. What you can do is add $100 mil to existing 737 + $50 mil upgrade cost or get an existing A330 & pay $50 mil to get A330 MRTT. If it's that simple RAF would not buy wedgetail nor German would buy the Poseidon since they are shareholders of airbuses ain't they? If they do they can expect to pay $1 billion each like the UAE did with global eyes.

Similarly, can't just add  $2 mil AESA radar + $30 mil FA/50 = $32 mil AESA capable FA/50.  If it's that simple Ph won't be looking at F16 & Gripen C rather than pay for software upgraded on the FA/50 won't they? Saab is offering Gripen c to pH at $60 mil a pop btw.
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1153692

Let me repeat.

*Chech republic do pay twice the price of Denmark for the Ceaser.
*UAE do pay twice for global eyes then RAF pays for wedgetail

Like i said, real equipment aren't Lego set that you can just plug & play.

Your post on how global eyes cost half by the third order proof that. You only comes to a conclusion that you can plug & play because you never bother that they did infact pays more for global eyes compared to wedgetail on the initial order.

It's pretty much proof the first idiot who commission an intergration pays for the cost of intergration & people afterwards just pays for the equipment.

If ATM by your claim don't have money how is it commissioning new weapons & pays for intergration help them do that? If anything they shouldn't go around commissioning new things.

If ambik Lego block & cantum are cheaper then just buying complete thing. Why do you think army around the world doesn't do it already? You really think you the only.smart.alex that had figured those out?😂

Imiginasi is great and all but do base it on reality if you want to compared to real world stuff. As it is you are bitter at reality because you compared it to fantasy that weapon are Lego blocks.

Tun Muhamad Amin kita bila nak start re-hull ni? buat kt mana?

They already set up a plan $125 Billion for defence modernization....$7 Billion is still nothing i guess.
They are not a bunch of kid.....they will considered before they execute.

sigh... we can only look in envy to our neighbors....

Looks like KAI had speed upped the KF-21 Boramae program. Mass production to begin in 2024.
Read more: https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/air-warf...ia-pacific-and/

Indonesia has also invested in funding the aircraft but, having placed an order for 42 Dassault Rafales on 10 February and receiving approval from the US State Department to buy 36 Boeing F-15 Eagles (designated F-15ID) on the same day, its commitment to the KF-21 — and an expected order of 50 aircraft — looks increasingly uncertain.