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Enhanced Capabilities of Missile Corvettes
Victory class corvettes are being upgrade (photo : sgforums)
The Combat Management System will be upgraded similar to Formidable class frigates (photo : Cyberpioneer)
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TNI AL Ingin Beli Kapal Perang yang Batal Dipesan Brunei
Ketiga kapal Nakhoda Ragam class ditawarkan ke TNI AL. Kapal tersebut cukup ditebus dengan harga 296 juta euro atau sekitar 380 juta dollar AS (photo : Militaryphotos)KD Pahang 172 Dipindahkan ke Mawila 1 Kuantan
Perpindahan KD Pahang ibarat ‘sirih pulang ke gagang’
KUANTAN – Kapal ronda generasi baru (NGPV) Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM), KD Pahang yang sebelum ini berpangkalan di Markas Wilayah Laut 2 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah dipindahkan ke Markas Wilayah Laut 1, di sini.
Sebagian Besar Anggaran untuk Beli Alutsista dari Luar Negeri
Nakhoda Ragam class adalah korvet berbobot 1.940 ton yang semula dipesan Brunei namun kemudian terjadi sengketa dengan BAE System sehingga 3 kapal tersebut tidak jadi diserahterimakan. 3 korvet/fregat ringan inlah yang kemungkinan diminati oleh TNI AL (photo : cfeddie)Jakarta, Kompas - Anggaran Kementerian Pertahanan tahun 2012 untuk pemberdayaan industri pertahanan hanya 2,9 persen dari total belanja. Hal ini menimbulkan pertanyaan karena selama ini pemerintah mendengung-dengungkan kebijakannya untuk membangun industri pertahanan dalam negeri.
Anggota Komisi I DPR, Enggar T Lukito, mengatakan, total pinjaman luar dan dalam negeri mencapai Rp 54,7 triliun. Namun, industri pertahanan dalam negeri hanya mendapat alokasi sebesar Rp 1,62 triliun.
"Sebagian besar untuk membeli alat utama sistem persenjataan dari luar negeri. Padahal, katanya ingin memberdayakan industri dalam negeri," kata Enggar dalam rapat kerja antara Kementerian Pertahanan (Kemhan) dan Komisi I DPR, Selasa (24/1), di Kompleks Parlemen di Jakarta.
Ia menyayangkan hal itu karena akan menimbulkan defisit transaksi secara umum. Dia mencontohkan, hingga 2011, neraca perdagangan dengan Korea masih positif. Namun, mulai 2012, neraca perdagangan jadi sangat negatif. "Akan berbahaya kalau neraca pembayaran tergerus defisit transaksi berjalan. Plus, komitmen awal membangun industri pertahanan, kan, karena memberikan multiplier effect," kata Enggar.
Tri Tamtomo juga mempertanyakan hal serupa. Dia mengatakan, adalah kebijakan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono agar TNI dan Polri menggunakan hasil BUMN Industri Pertahanan dalam negeri.
Helmy Fauzi mengingatkan agar Kemhan mengantisipasi berbagai kemungkinan kalau bekerja sama dengan industri pertahanan luar negeri. Pasalnya, menurut sejarah, selalu ada syarat-syarat yang bersifat politis.
Menhan Purnomo Yusgiantoro mengatakan, di dalam peningkatan kemampuan pertahanan menuju Minimum Essential Force yang dianggarkan juga ada komponen trade-off dan penggunaan konten lokal. Ia mengharapkan ada pembahasan lebih terinci dengan panitia kerja alat utama sistem persenjataan (alutsista) terkait hal ini.
Menurut dia, sejak ada Komite Kebijakan Industri Pertahanan (KKIP) juga ada kemajuan dalam proyek-proyek yang diterima industri pertahanan. "Tahun ini PT PAL, PT Pindad, dan PT Dirgantara Indonesia terima order yang besarnya kira-kira Rp 11 triliun," katanya.
Transfer teknologi
Wakil Menhan Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin mengatakan, di dalam pembelian alutsista dari luar negeri juga termasuk di dalamnya transfer teknologi dengan industri pertahanan dalam negeri.
Sementara itu, Kepala Staf TNI Angkatan Taut (AL) Laksamana Soeparno di Mabes AL Cilangkap, Jakarta Timur, mengatakan, TNI AL menganggarkan dana Rp 40 triliun untuk belanja alutsista tahun 2012 dengan membeli sejumlah perlengkapan modern dari dalam dan luar negeri.
"Kita membeli tiga kapal selam dari Korea Selatan yang diserahkan tahun 2015. Selain itu dibeli tiga fregat ringan dari Inggris." ujar Soeparno.
Alutsista impor lainnya adalah dua kapal hidrografi (survei maritim) dengan pilihan dibeli dari Perancis atau Korea Selatan. kapal layar latih tiang tinggi pengganti KRI Dewaruci dari Spanyol atau Polandia, serta dua unit Perusak Kawal Rudal dari Belanda atau Italia. (EDN/ONG)
KDB Darulaman Tiba di Pangkalan TDLB
KDB Darulaman tiba di Brunei dari perjalanan panjang pengiriman kapal baru tersebut dari Jerman (photo : Brunei Mindef)Pada hari Jumaat 7 Oktober 2011, Kapal Diraja Brunei DARULAMAN memulakan pelayaran bersejarah yang pertamanya “The Maiden Voyage” daripada Pelabuhan Lemwerder, Jerman menuju balik ke tanah air Negara Brunei Darussalam. Kapal-kapal ini telah mengharungi Lautan Atlantik, Lautan Mediterranean, Teluk Suez, Teluk Aden, Lautan Hindi, Selat Melaka dan Laut China Selatan.
Princess to Launch New Ship

The newly-built HTMSKrabi in dry dock at the Mahidol Adulyadej Naval Dockyard in Chon Buri province. The vessel is to be launched today to commemorate His Majesty the King’s 84th birthday on Monday. (photo : Bangkok Post)
SATTAHIP : Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will today preside over the launching ceremony of the HTMS Krabi, a new patrol vessel built by the Thai navy.
HTMS Krabi was built by the navy at a cost of 1.7 billion baht. It is intended to commemorate His Majesty the King's 84th birthday on Monday.
However, the ship will not be ready to be commissioned until late next year.
The ship is also part of the navy's strategic personnel development, said Vice Adm Manit Soonnadam, chief of the Royal Thai Naval Dockyard.
HTMS Krabi is a vessel with an almost 2 tonne displacement.
It is the fist time the navy has built a ship this size.
It has been constructed according to the suggestion of His Majesty the King, who named the ship. It is expected to be operational for 40 years.
HTMS Krabi is 90.5m long and 13.5m wide.
The height of the gunwale is 7.7m.
The displacement tonnage is 1.97 tonnes and the vessel has a maximum speed of 23 knots.
The space of its deck is enough to park a Super Lynx helicopter. The ship has 89 crewmen.
VAdm Manit said HTMS Krabi will be assigned to the task of carrying out marine intelligence missions, protecting fishing boats and national marine resources, assisting people facing difficulties in the sea, as well as enforcing marine laws.
The 1.7 billion budget for the contruction of HTMS Krabi comes from a tied-over budget between 2008 and 2011, he said.
(Bangkok Post)Vietnam Requests Brahmos and Corvettes from India

Khukri class, the 1350 ton corvettes of Indian Navy (photo : Mazumdar)
Vietnam's plea puts South Block in a predicament
Vietnam's request for military assistance from India, primarily in the naval field, has put South Block in a quandary, said official sources.
On the one hand, India would like to pay back Vietnam for its assistance in consistently bolstering its case at multilateral fora such as the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), and on the other, it would not want to irk China as the plea has come shortly after exchanges between Beijing and New Delhi over Oil & Natural Gas Commission Videsh (ONGC Videsh) prospecting for oil and gas in a portion of South China Sea claimed by both China and Vietnam.

Brahmos air-launched version (photo : Brahmos)
Vietnam President Troun Tan Sang made the request in four fields — submarine training, conversion training for its pilots to fly Sukhoi-30, modernisation of a strategic port and transfer of medium-sized warships.
In fact, the sources said, the Vietnam President overlooked protocol to meet senior Indian officials and ensured the timing of their commercial flight was revised to accommodate the unscheduled meeting. Vietnam had asked India to transfer Brahmos cruise missiles and offer its small civil nuclear plants for selection.
India would be comfortable with providing conversion training for Sukhois as it has completed a similar exercise with Malaysia, another South-East Asian country. Meeting the other three demands needed considerable deliberation, said the sources, as India was not keen to put a spanner in ties with China with which it is shortly slated to sign an agreement to douse tensions by taking care of eye-ball-to-eyeball confrontations between military patrols in certain pockets of the line of actual control (LAC).
In particular, India will have to think hard about Vietnam's request to transfer 1,000 to 1,500 tonne vessels to sanitise Vietnam's long coast line and upgrade the Nha Trang port, located near the critical Cam Ranh Bay, especially after the alleged warning by the Chinese navy to an Indian warship that had left this port after a visit in July.
India and Vietnam will cooperate in the training of Kilo submarine (photo : China Daily)According to the report submitted by the Navy, INS Airavat left the place quickly after a caller, identifying himself as the “Chinese Navy,” warned that “you are entering Chinese waters.” The Navy has claimed that its men on the warship did not spot any aircraft or ship from where the call had come. It also claimed not to have worked out the coordinates from where the call originated. Indian diplomats said the incident was a “non-event.”
Diplomats here said India would have to factor in two factors — though it had the right to develop ties in its near neighbourhood, it should not be done in a manner that derailed ties with China, especially at a time when the Special Representatives on the border issue were due to meet and Beijing's support wasrequired for entry into the Nuclear Suppliers' Group.
Vympel Shipbuilding Plant Provides Assistance to Vietnam to Build Project 12418 Molniya Corvettes under the Russian License
Project 12418 Molniya corvette (photo : ttvnol)MOSCOW, (ARMS-TASS). Shipbuilding plant "Vympel" provides assistance to Vietnam in the serial construction of missile boats "Molniya" Project 12418 under the Russian license.
Vietnam Wants Four SIGMA Corvettes

The first two ship will be built in Schelde Shipyard, while the other two corvettes will be built in Vietnam (photo : Wim Kosten)
Vietnam ordered four corvettes at Schelde Vlissingen
Vlissingen - Vietnam wants four corvettes ordered from Schelde Naval Shipbuilding in Vlissingen.
That the Vietnamese prime minister said Saturday during his visit to the yard. There is no signed contract. First, the Vietnamese and Dutch governments agree on the funding.If the order is placed, the aim of the first two ships to be built in Vlissingen. The other two corvettes will be built in Vietnam.
(PZC)
South Korea to Gift Corvette to Philippines Navy
Po Hang class corvettes (photo : Chosun)South Korea is donating one of its recently retired Po Hang class corvettes to the Philippines Navy. The Po Hangs are 1,200 ton warships that first entered service in 1984. Since then 24 have been built. Each is armed with four Harpoon anti-ship missiles, one 76mm cannon; two twin 40mm automatic cannon, six torpedo tubes and twelve depth charges. The crew of 95 also operates radar and sonar. Top speed is 59 kilometers an hour. Two Po Hangs have been retired so far, and one was sunk by a North Korean torpedo last year.
The Philippines is an island nation, with 7,100 islands to defend. Long crippled by corruption and bad government, the Philippines have never had much money to spend on the military (or anything else.) Wealthier nations have found it good diplomacy to donate military equipment to the Philippines. The Filipinos appreciate it; because donated military gear is something the thieving politicians have a hard time stealing.
KDB Darulaman Completes RBN's Trio Of Maritime Assets
KDB Darulaman 08 (photo : Helwin Scharn)Dato Paduka Awg Hj Mustappa bin Hj Sirat, the Deputy Minister of Defence, told the Bulletin, "Basically with these three new ships we are fulfilling the capability requirements for the RBAF, as our main priority will always be to protect our territorial integrity first and foremost."
In response to a question on the future roles for the Royal Brunei Navy, particularly on its ability to contribute to anti-piracy patrols in the region, the deputy minister replied: "The Darussalam-class patrol vessels will allow better flexibility for the armed forces to also address other security issues, such as humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, search and rescue and even to the extent, if there is a requirement for us to play a greater role, such as that, with the improved and increased capability that we have now with these new ships, we can now consider such a request in the future."
But he carefully pointed out that this was "a consideration at the regional level", and that by comparison to the previous fleet of ageing Waspada-class missile gunboats and Perwiraclass coastal patrol crafts, the Darussalam-class patrol vessels would "definitely afford us greater flexibility, as their range and size and capabilities are much better now".
Darulaman is a #3 of Darussalam class OPV (photo : Martin Groothuis)Bearing the pennant number '08', KDB Darulaman is the last of the Darussalam-class patrol vessels that was commissioned, together with its two sister ships KDB Darussalam and KBD Darulehsan, to the world-renowned German shipbuilder, Luerssen Werft Shipyard by His Majesty's Government way back on June 26, 2009, which was when the steel cutting and keel laying were first initiated for the KDB Darulaman. Meanwhile, its official launching took place on November 12, 2010, when it was first announced through a Ministry of Defence press release of the RBAF's official acceptance of the first two Darussalam-class patrol vessels.
In the press release issued yesterday by the ministry, the latest state-of-the-art warship for the Royal Brunei Navy was "accepted on behalf of the Government of His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam by the Deputy Minister of Defence, Dato Paduka Hj Mustappa Hj Sirat", with the official acceptance, handing over and flag raising ceremony for the KDB Darulaman with the white flag and ensign of the Royal Brunei Navy at the Luerssen Werft Shipyard in Germany.
The ships' officers and crew are at the final stage of their training, according to the press statement, after it had successfully carried out its Harbour and Sea Acceptance Trials.
The KDB Darulaman is expected to start its maiden voyage back to Brunei Darussalam in October and is expected to arrive home in December this year. As with its other two sister ships, the KDB Darulaman is fully manned by a full crew from the Royal Brunei Navy.
Just like its two other sister ships, KDB Darulaman is the third in the Royal Brunei Navy fleet of Darussalamclass Patrol Vessels, which is the first of its class and kind for the world-renowned German shipbuilder and the Royal Brunei Navy.
The ship has 80 m in length and equipped with 57mm main gun and MM40 anti-ship-missile (photo : Martin Groothuis)The ship is also equipped with the battle-proven Exocet MM40 anti-ship missile and a Bofors 57mm main gun for air-defence and surface action.
With the arrival of the KDB Darulaman back to the Sultanate's shores, it will herald the manifestation of "the commitment of His Majesty's Government in further enhancing the Royal Brunei Armed Forces capability to defend the nation's sovereignty and territorial integrity", as stated in the ministry's 2004 Defence White Paper and subsequent Defence Update of 2007.
With the full fleet of three 80-metre Darussalam-class patrol vessels and four 41-metre Ijtihad Fast Patrol Boats, it will raise the standard further for the Royal Brunei Navy's capabilities in maintaining and defending the maritime sovereignty and territorial integrity of Brunei Darussalam, as well as support the RBAF's efforts in keeping the peace and stability in the region, at a time of increasingly complex security challenges in the form of piracy, natural disasters and fisheries and resource protection.
With a brand new fleet, the older Waspada-class missile gunboats have already been handed over to the Indonesian Navy, as a measure of goodwill in the country's first security pillar of defence diplomacy, whilst the rest of the smaller and similarly ageing Perwira-class coastal patrol crafts will also be "replaced in stages".
(BruDirect)
Philippines Expresses Interest in Spanish LPD and OPV Designs
Avante class OPV (image : Navantia)Projek 17 Kapal Meko 100 Diteruskan
KD Pahang 172 (photo : ImdexAsia)PORT DICKSON — Projek kapal Meko 100 tidak pernah dihentikan dan baki 17 buah kapal yang menjadi opsyen kepada Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) akan disambung jika kedudukan kewangan negara mengizinkan, kata Menteri Pertahanan, Datuk Seri Dr. Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.
Pada masa sekarang, enam kapal dari jenis itu sedang berkhidmat dengan TLDM dan kapal-kapal berkenaan yang hanya dilengkapi dengan meriam akan dipertingkatkan kemampuannya.
"Keputusan untuk melengkapkan kapal perang itu dengan peluru berpandu antipermukaan masih belum berada pada peringkat akhir," katanya kepada pemberita selepas menyaksikan majlis Perbarisan Tamat Latihan Perdana Angkatan Tentera Malaysia-PDRM di sini, hari ini.
Beliau berkata demikian ketika diminta mengulas mengenai status projek Meko 100 memandangkan TLDM tiba-tiba menukar arah untuk membeli kapal perang dari jenis "Littoral Combat Ship" yang lebih canggih.
Meko 100 yang direka bentuk di Jerman itu merupakan sebuah kapal rondaan generasi baru dan TLDM merancang untuk mempunyai 27 buah kapal jenis itu di dalam perkhidmatannya, ia mempunyai sistem yang modular dan ia boleh ditukar menjadi kapal perang apabila sistem peluru berpandu dipasang.
Baru-baru ini, sebuah akhbar tempatan mendedahkan, Kementerian Pertahanan bercadang untuk memasang peluru berpandu antikapal kepada kapal Meko 100 TLDM.
Kedah Class Segera Dilengkapi SSM
Kapal KD Kedah akan dilengkapi dengan lapan peluru berpandu anti kapal permukaan tahun depan. (photo : TLDM)KUALA LUMPUR - 'Taring' Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia (TLDM) dijangka bertambah tajam mulai tahun depan, kerana dipercayai semua enam kapal ronda generasi baru (NGPV) dari jenis KD Kedah, akan dipasang dengan peluru berpandu anti kapal permukaan.
Sumber Pertahanan memberitahu Utusan Malaysia, bajet untuk pembelian peluru berpandu itu akan dimasukkan dalam pusingan kedua Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMK-10) bagi Kementerian Pertahanan, yang akan dibentang kepada Kabinet Oktober ini.
Kongsberg NSM, rudal SSM dengan jangkauan 180 km (photo : Militaryphotos)
"Kita memilih untuk memasang semua kapal ini dengan peluru berpandu anti kapal permukaan terlebih dahulu sebelum mempertimbangkan peluru berpandu pertahanan udara. Jika kita memilih untuk memasang kedua-dua jenis persenjataan ini, kosnya terlalu tinggi."Sebelum ini semua kapal dari jenis KD Kedah walaupun canggih tetapi hanya dilengkapi dengan meriam utama dan sekunder sahaja kerana konsep pembinaannya adalah 'fitted for but not with'. Jadi, kita fikir sudah sampai masanya kapal ini dilengkapkan dengan peluru berpandu.
MBDA MM40 block ii, rudal SSM dengan jangkauan 70 km (photo : MBDA)"Keputusan untuk memasang peluru berpandu ini selaras dengan kehendak TLDM. Memandangkan semua kapal ini dipertanggungjawab untuk meronda perairan negara maka, menjadi keperluan untuk aset ini dibekal dengan peluru berpandu," katanya.
Kapal ronda dari kelas KD Kedah adalah lambang kepada usaha berdikari industri pertahanan Malaysia, yang dibina berasaskan kapal Meko A-100, hasil kerjasama antara syarikat pertahanan tempatan, Boustead Naval Shipyard dengan syarikat Jerman.
Reka Bentuk LCS Siap Hujung Bulan Ini
KRI Diponegoro-365 “Bombardir” Pulau Gundul
Meriam OTO Melara 76mm KRI Diponegoro (photo : Koarmatim)Laut Jawa-Kapal Perang Republik Indonesia (KRI) Diponegoro-365 “membombardir” Pulau Gundul yang berada di sekitar Kepulauan Karimun Jawa Sabtu (02/06). Sebanyak sembilan butir peluru dimuntahkan dari moncong Senjata Artileri jenis meriam laras tunggal super rapid dengan kaliber 76mm berhasil menghujam daratan Pulau tak berpenghuni itu. Pulau Gundul merupakan daerah latihan milik TNI AL kusus untuk gladi tempur penembakan senjata artileri kapal-kapal perang.
Meriam kaliber 76mm Otomelara yang terpasang di Geladak Haluan kapal ditembakkan secara otomatis melalui Pusat Informasi Tempur (PIT) didukung radar senjata jenis LIROD MK2 sebagai tracking sasaran. Selain menggunakan kendali penembakan otomatis melalut PIT juga dilakukan penembakan secara manual dengan Target Designation Sight (TDS). Jarak tembak dari KRI Diponegoro menuju sasaran kurang lebih 5 nautical mile (9,8km).
Akurasi penembakan meriam 76mm sangat tinggi karena didukung Module Combat System (MCS) terintegrasi dengan senjata ini, berupa radar LIROD yang mampu melakukan tracking video dan memberikan data kontrol senjata secara tiga dimensi mulai dari jarak, baringan dan ketinggian sasaran. Radar tersebut juga memiliki kemampuan mengunci sasaran udara secara manual dan otomatis.
Peluru yang ditembakkan dari laras meriam 76mm merupakan proyektil jenis Target Practice(TP). Meriam buatan Italia ini mampu memuntahkan peluru sebanyak 120 butir per menit dengan jarak jangkau maksimal 16 sampai 20 kilometer sesuai dengan jenis Amunisi yang ditembakkan. Untuk Amunisi jenisSemi Armour Piercing Otomonition Extended Range (Sapomer) dapat menjangkau sasaran dengan jarak maksimum 20km.
Serbuan pagi hari itu merupakan program latihan yang dilaksanakan oleh kapal perang yang berada di jajaran Koarmatim tersebut, saat melakukan perjalanan Lintas Laut (Linla) dari Pangkalan Surabaya menuju Jakarta dalam rangka akan mengikuti Latihan Bersama (Latma). Disamping itu kapal ini akan mendapatkan tugas patroli laut wilayah barat yang berada disekitar Kepulauan Karimun Jawa, Selat Sunda, Perairan Kepulauan Riau (Kepri), Selat Malaka dan Laut Cina Selatan.
Tujuan galdi tempur penembakan senjata Artileri atas air tersebut sebagai tolak ukur untuk melihat sejauh mana kemampuan operasional persenjataan serta piranti pendukung yang terintegrasi dengan senjata tersebut. Selain itu juga untuk meninggkatkan kemampuan dan profesionalisme prajurit dalam mengawaki dan mengoperasikan persenjataan yang dimiliki oleh KRI.
“Latihan penembakkan ini berhasil dengan baik, karena seluruh peluru yang ditembakkan mencapai target dengan akurat”, kata Komandan KRI Diponegoro-365 Letkol Laut (P) Antonius Widyoutomo.
(Koarmatim)





