Israel offered KFIR multi role fighter to the Philippines. Is it an ideal MRF price wise?

The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Modernization Act, formally known as Republic Act No. 7898, was a Philippine law signed by President Fidel V. Ramos on February 23, 1995. Its goal was to modernize all branches of the Philippine Armed Forces (AFP), including the Philippine Air Force, Philippine Navy, and Philippine Army. The statute was supposed to run for 15 years with a budget of 50 billion pesos for the first five years, but financing was halted owing to the Asian financial crisis in 1997. Following the financial crisis, money for AFP modernization was discontinued, and subsequent administrations ignored the provision until it expired in 2010.
It was updated on December 11, 2012, by Republic Act No. 10349, commonly known as the Revised AFP Modernization Act, which extends the modernization program for another 15 years with an initial budget of $75 billion for the first five years in order to continue updating all AFP branches. Under President Benigno Aquino III's leadership, the amended law aims to build a defense system capable of addressing the assessed threats at a time when the Philippines, Taiwan, and other Southeast Asian nations such as Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam are embroiled in a sea dispute with China in the contested Spratly Islands.
The updated AFP modernization program is divided into three horizons: the first from 2013 to 2017, the second from 2018 to 2022, and the third from 2023 to 2028. A total projected cost of US$40 billion. On June 20, 2018, President Rodrigo Duterte authorized the shopping list for Horizon 2 of the Armed Forces Modernization Program. The projects will be implemented between 2018 and 2022, with a budget of around 300 billion, or approximately US$5.6 billion.
KFIR multi role fighter
The Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir (Hebrew: "Lion Cub") is an Israeli all-weather multirole combat aircraft based on the French Dassault Mirage 5, with Israeli avionics and a General Electric J79 turbojet engine produced in Israel.
The project that would eventually give birth to the Kfir can be traced back to Israel's desire to adapt the Dassault Mirage IIIC to the Israeli Air Force's (IAF) particular specifications.The all-weather, delta-winged Mirage IIICJ was Israel's first Mach 2 aircraft, acquired from then-close ally France, and served as the IAF's backbone for the majority of the 1960s until the arrival of the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and, most importantly, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II by the end of the decade. While the Mirage IIICJ was exceptionally effective in the air superiority role, its comparatively short range limited its use as a ground-attack aircraft.
Thus, in the mid-1960s, at the request of Israel, Dassault Aviation began developing the Mirage 5, a fair-weather, ground-attack version of the Mirage III, by removing advanced avionics located behind the cockpit, allowing the aircraft to increase its fuel-carrying capacity while lowering maintenance costs.Dassault had completed manufacturing of the 50 Mirages paid for by Israel by 1968, but an arms embargo placed on Israel by the French government in 1967 blocked shipment. The Israelis responded by manufacturing an illegal duplicate of the Mirage 5, the Nesher, utilizing technical specifications gathered by Israeli spies for both the airframe and the engine.

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