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[pr1v4t33r]

The test conducted to 1km from the beach at the speed of 9km/h.

the speed is acceptable, similar to BMP-3f.

 

[Jakartans@PkDef]

speed is acceptable, similar to BMP-3f.

Tapi tesnya baru di waduk jatiluhur bro, belum di laut.

 

[Nike]

Tapi tesnya baru di waduk jatiluhur bro, belum di laut.

yups, Jatiluhur itu

But it's a progress indeed, to attain and improve the capabilities is what our defense industries must be done

 

[Jakartans@PkDef]

yups, Jatiluhur itu

But it's a progress indeed, to attain and improve the capabilities is what our defense industries must be done

i think Anoa should stick as purely land-based vehicle. Let the amphibious capability only for river or swamp crossing only.
They should develop totally new vehicle based on pure amphibious tracked vehicle design. 6x6 wheeled vehicles will have more difficulties when fording even 8x8 cannot match tracked vehicle fording capability..

 

[MarveL]

 

[Nike]

i think Anoa should stick as purely land-based vehicle. Let the amphibious capability only for river or swamp crossing only.
They should develop totally new vehicle based on pure amphibious tracked vehicle design. 6x6 wheeled vehicles will have more difficulties when fording even 8x8 cannot match tracked vehicle fording capability..

just hope they will acquire another design and technologies, myself is kinda frustrate to see PT PINDAD stuck with 6X6 platforms.....

 

[Jakartans@PkDef]

Have a great friday
Be safe, drive smart and dont forget to wear safety belt
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Bripda Tri Nanda Sari, Polda NTT

 

[MarveL]

Have a great friday
Be safe, drive smart and dont forget to wear safety belt
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Bripda Tri Nanda Sari, Polda NTT
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Juragan timawa banyak koleksi foto macam ginih...
ayohh tambahin lagi...

 

[Jakartans@PkDef]

Juragan timawa banyak koleksi foto macam ginih...
ayohh tambahin lagi...

Dikit2 aja bro biar penasaran hehehehe

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Airspace Spat Shows Indonesia's Newfound Foreign Policy Muscle

Indonesia is pushing to reclaim airspace within five years in a sensitive military area that’s currently controlled by Singapore, as President Joko Widodo takes a more assertive approach to foreign policy.

The airspace over the Riau and Natuna islands near Singapore has been administered by the city-state since 1946 as a postwar holdover and is a corridor for flights in and out of Changi Airport, one of Asia’s busiest for international flights. Singapore says the arrangement provides effective air traffic control services, and is not about sovereignty.

“Of course it’s related to sovereignty,” Indonesia Vice President Jusuf Kalla said in an interview on Tuesday in Jakarta. “They have no right to decline, it is Indonesia’s right.”

The stance reflects Indonesia’s efforts to step up control of the borders of the world’s largest archipelago, which stretches from maritime boundaries with India in the west to Australia in the east. Widodo’s government has developed the coast guard, blown up illegal fishing vessels and deployed warships in the gas-rich waters around Natuna in response to China’s growing military presence in the disputed South China Sea.

Lacking a majority in parliament, Widodo, known as Jokowi, has shored up his political support with key posts for ex-army men such as government security chief Luhut Panjaitan, and moved away from his predecessor Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s policy of “a million friends and zero enemies”. Jokowi envisages a “maritime axis” policy to improve shipping and trade between the country’s 17,000 islands.

readmore: Airspace Spat Shows Indonesia's Newfound Foreign Policy Muscle - Bloomberg Business

 

[Indos]

Full support from Indonesian people to implement it......

It will become a good record for Jokowi administration if we can take the control, but of course this policy needs investment in radar and others. Lookheed Martin and its Indonesian partner (PT CMI teknologi) can get benefit of this policy.

Old story but still relevant

Lockheed Martin announces Indonesian radar industry initiative
Rabu, 6 Agustus 2014 10:29 WIB | 2.923 Views

Lockheed Martin radar. (lockheedmartin.com)

Jakarta,Aug 6 (Antara) - Lockheed Martin has launched an Indonesian radar industry initiative as part of its efforts to support the countrys plans to modernize and extend its air surveillance coverage.

"Lockheed Martin is committed to supporting Indonesia and its defense industry revitalization plans," said Robert Laing, National Executive of Lockheed Martin Indonesia, in a press statement here on Wednesday.

This initiative includes technology transfers to aid in the development of a new Indonesian radar industry, as well as partnerships with local universities to cultivate the workforce necessary to support it.

Enhancing Indonesias ability to make critical radar components will reduce the nations reliance on foreign suppliers, while providing employment opportunities for its citizens.

"Our goal is to create a new technology sector and associated jobs to ensure a sustainable industry in Indonesia."

Lockheed Martin has worked with the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) to produce an engineering curriculum focused on radar technologies.

Similar programs, along with ongoing technical seminars and education opportunities, are training future leaders in the development of this technology. The Corporation also has established an Indonesia-based manufacturing capability with local companies, which have begun producing radar components.

Lockheed Martin is competing for Indonesias Ground Control Intercept (GCI) radar program. Should the company be selected for this opportunity, it would provide significant new employment possibilities for its local industry partners, estimated at up to 2 million labor hours over the lifetime of these radars. These Indonesian partners would be capable of producing nearly $100M (USD) of radar components per year.

Lockheed Martins extensive air surveillance radar experience can help Indonesia ensure a safe and secure airspace for both civilian air traffic and national sovereignty for many years to come.

Lockheed Martin has produced and currently maintains more than 200 air surveillance radars in 30 countries. Operational around the world 24 hours a day, these radars work completely unmanned and many have performed for decades in extremely harsh, remote environments.

None of these radars has ever been taken out of service, and many systems continue to operate well beyond their original 20-year service lives. This longevity is a result of Lockheed Martins continuous investment in state-of-the-art technology and its commitment to customer missions.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 113,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The Corporations net sales for 2013 were $45.4 billion.
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Lockheed Martin announces Indonesian radar industry initiative - ANTARA News


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I dont know how they can manage to fly their F-15 Silent Eagle or F 16 Block 52 once we settle the control.....

 

[pr1v4t33r]

Scrap all the treaty that let them fly their military jets over our airspace. Wanna fly, go up to the north and cross over malaysia instead. Smells like victory

 

[MarveL]

‘Strategic Funnels’: Deciphering Indonesia’s Submarine Ambitions – Analysis

Location of Indonesia. Source: CIA World Factbook.
BY RSIS DECEMBER 3, 2015


Historical experience, archipelagic geography, and strategic imperative make submarines a critical asset for Indonesia’s naval defence in spite of financial and other constraints. Overambitious submarine projects, however, are perilous.

By Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto*

In September 2015, Indonesia decided to cut its defence budget for the first time in five years by 6.3 percent, or IDR7 trillion (US$490 million), to IDR95.8 trillion. Slower economic growth and declining rupiah value are cited as the main reasons. As a result, reductions in military procurements are expected. Amid these constraints, however, the government remains firm to endorse ‘big-ticket’ purchases, including submarines. If that’s the case, why do submarines seem central in Indonesia’s naval modernisation programme and broader naval strategy?

Southeast Asia’s underwater strategic environment is getting more crowded. IHS Jane’s predicted in 2011 that regional countries would acquire at least 13 submarines by 2020. Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam have acquired submarines in the last two decades or so, while Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines have declared their intent to follow suit. Given this strategic trend, it’s tempting to conclude that regional countries are simply playing ‘catch-up’ as a reason behind their submarine acquisitions.

Strategic Imperative
While the necessity to keep abreast with the prevailing strategic trend is common behind any procurement decisions, it is not always that simple.

Submarines are not new to the Indonesian Navy. After Thailand decommissioned its Matchanu-class in 1951, Indonesia became the first Southeast Asian submarine operator with the Whiskey-class boats acquired from the Soviet Union in 1959. Given the absence of other regional submarine operators at that time, Indonesia then clearly did not tailgate others.

The adverse strategic environment at the time, with the Dutch in control of Indonesia-claimed West New Guinea, WNG (West Papua), and the Indonesian Confrontation against the British-backed Malaysia, submarines became a strategic imperative. Underlying this imperative is the archipelago’s location at the crossroads between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, but also the maritime gaps between the islands along Indonesia’s periphery providing foreign maritime powers access into the inner part of the archipelago, known in Indonesia’s naval parlance as the ‘strategic funnels’ (corong strategis).

The importance of strategic funnels lies in their proximity to neighbouring countries, relatively abundant marine resources, or contested maritime space. They include the Sulawesi and South China Seas, where other countries have laid claims on some portions of the two areas, respectively called the Ambalat and Natuna. Reflecting this concern, a new naval base is under construction in the natural harbour of Palu in Sulawesi to support submarine patrols along the Makassar-Lombok Straits axis.

Submarines could play a decisive role when deployed in these sensitive areas. Their stealth and concealment can make them a potent intelligence-gathering platform in peacetime and sabotage in wartime. Although they never saw real combat, Indonesian submarines intensively conducted intelligence gathering and covert special operations ranging from the 1962 WNG dispute to the 1999 East Timor Crisis. In October 1965, two submarines even sailed to Karachi and conducted exercises with the Pakistani Navy in support of the latter after its war against India.

Operational perils
Given their long service history, submarines have become deeply inculcated into Indonesia’s naval traditions. The importance and contributions of the Submarine Service are highly regarded. Its retention becomes even more critical at present when Indonesia’s neighbours are also acquiring and developing their submarine fleets.

Indonesia’s military modernisation plan, the ‘Minimum Essential Force’ (MEF), aims to procure twelve submarines within 2010-2024 timeframe. Currently, Indonesia operates two submarines, the German-built U-209 KRI Chakra and KRI Nanggala. Although refurbished in early 2000s, they were originally built in 1980-81, thus raising doubts about their current effectiveness. In December 2011, Indonesia purchased three South Korean Type-209 Chang Bogo boats with the first induction to begin by 2018, while Russia and France have respectively declared their Kilo and Scorpene bids to supply for the five to seven remaining boats.

On the flip side, the Indonesian submarine experience has revealed a list of mishaps and pitfalls to learn from. While strategically critical, submarines are financially expensive and technically complex to maintain and operate, at least to Indonesia’s standards. Its technological sophistication demands enormous lifecycle costs, which strains the limited naval budget. And this influenced Indonesia’s submarine procurement decision. In 2011, the preferred yet costlier Russian Kilo-class and improved German U-209 were rejected in favour of the cheaper yet less sophisticated South Korean Type-209s.

In addition, technical incompetence plagued submarine construction, operations, and maintenance. The Whiskey-class experience was replete with technical faults and near-accidents, and the fact they were not tropicalised undermined the crews’ morale. Proprietary issues also inhibit the South Korean-Indonesian project to jointly assemble the Type-209s at the latter’s PT PAL shipyard, since the project does not include the original German manufacturer.

A cautionary tale
Although Indonesia wishes to expand its submarine fleet, it is clearly not aimed to outmatch others already in the game. Conservative estimates posit that it would be a long while before Indonesia acquires all twelve submarines, possibly beyond 2024, due to the gestation period in the acquisition process. Even then, they would only reflect the number of Whiskey boats Indonesia originally had. Questions must also be asked about the proficiency of submarine crews and the maintenance support team, the required training and basing infrastructure, and the supply availability of vital provisions, including fuel, spares and ammunitions.

However, the strategic environment in which new Indonesian submarines would be inducted—whenever that is—is going to be different. They would arrive when there would be more submarines already roaming Southeast Asian waters, yet with more novice operators. The history of Indonesia’s Submarine Service—especially its mishaps and pitfalls—presents a cautionary tale about the risk of overambitious submarine projects. Amid a climate of mistrust and tensions surrounding regional disputes, especially in the South China Sea, the introduction of submarines would add uncertainty on regional commitments to a peaceful resolution.

While submarines could add deterrence to individual countries, collectively they could increase the risk of accidents at best, and inadvertent conflicts at worst. This makes it necessary for Indonesia to advocate for greater naval cooperation at bilateral and multilateral levels in order to help mitigate mistrust between submarine-operating countries. Bilaterally, Indonesia maintains regular exercises and patrols with eight countries, while it has increased participation from three to eleven major multilateral exercises since the 1990s.

In the subsurface realm, however, more needs to be done. Indonesia could include more submarine participation in exercises with partner navies. Not only would this improve Indonesia’s own submarine proficiency, but it could also develop interoperability in times of distress, such as a submarine accident, and familiarise Indonesian submariners with others’ doctrines and experiences. Taken together, these efforts are necessary to ensure that submarines remain a potent and reliable war machine.

*Ristian Atriandi Supriyanto is Indonesian Presidential PhD Scholar with the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. He was previously an Associate Research Fellow with the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

‘Strategic Funnels’: Deciphering Indonesia’s Submarine Ambitions – Analysis | Eurasia Review

EC-725 PTDI - Hottest Gossip of this week.

 

[pr1v4t33r]

EC-725 PTDI - Hottest Gossip of this week.

i see what you did there, PT.DI...

 

[Nike]

S. Korean aircraft maker inks partnership deal with Indonesian firm

2015/12/04 15:56

JAKARTA, Dec. 4 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's aircraft manufacturer Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd. (KAI) signed a strategic cooperation agreement with an Indonesian aerospace company on Friday as part of efforts to expand its business in Indonesia's defense industry.

The strategic partnership signed with state-run aerospace company PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) calls for the two aerospace manufacturers to forge tighter collaboration in the fields of munitions for the defense and private sectors as well as unmanned aerial vehicles, according to KAI officials.

The heads of the companies signed the agreement in Indonesia's defense ministry in Jakarta earlier in the day.

Through collaboration in aircraft development and production, they will jointly seek entry into a new market, according to the agreement. The companies will also hold two sessions of a joint committee meeting every year, the officials said.

The two companies are the contract manufacturers of South Korea's 18 trillion won (US$15.5 billion) fighter jet development project, which the country will officially kick off in partnership with the Indonesian government.

Indonesia will bankroll 20 percent of the development of the Korean Fighter Experimental (KF-X) project in order to gain access to the new combat jets.

With the latest agreement, KAI will be able to make inroads into the depot maintenance market for the Indonesian air force as well as other aerospace sectors in the country, the South Korean firm said.

"The strategic partnership of the two countries will guarantee the success of KF-X and entry into a new market," KAI President Ha Sung-yong said. "It will be a win-win deal for the two countries' aerospace industries to become a new growth engine for the countries' economic growth."


Source: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/news...005800315.html

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