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21 Januari 2019 Cougar XT underwater robotic vehicle (photo : SaabSeaEye) Cougar Best for Royal New Zealand Navy Norway-based Østensjø Rederi has chosen a Saab Seaeye Cougar XT underwater robotic vehicle as a deployable resource aboard their multi-purpose support vessel ‘Edda Fonn’. The company is contracted to deliver the ‘Edda Fonn’ to the New Zealand Ministry of Defence in 2019 with an integrated ROV and dive system amongst its upgrades. The ship will subsequently be used by the Royal New Zealand Navy. Østensjø Rederi say they chose the Cougar over robotic vehicles from other manufacturers after hearing ‘very good feedback’ from end users around the world. They also said the Cougar had the best overall specification and is backed by Saab Seaeye’s 30 year reputation for building reliable systems. ROV and diving consultant at Østensjø Rederi, Arvid Bertelsen, explains that the Cougar XT has the best power, thrust and payload in its class, with the widest and most comprehensive ran...

17 Januari 2019 KRI Semarang 594 LPD yang sementara difungsikan sebagai Kapal Rumah Sakit (photo : Masyhudi) TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA - Panglima TNI Marsekal TNI Hadi Tjahjanto mengatakan pihaknya telah menyiapkan satu kapal Landing Platform Dock (LPD) untuk bersiaga terhadap ancaman bencana 2019. Hadi mengatakan, hal itu juga telah dilaporkannya krpada Menteri Pertahanan RI Ryamizard Ryacudu dalam Rapat Pimpinan Kementerian Pertahanan di Gedung Kementerian Pertahan, Jakarta Pusat, Rabu (16/1/2019). "Dalam Renstra kedua ini akan ada penambahan kapal-kapal LPD untuk menambah kekuatan yang sekarang sudah ada," kata Hadi Tjahjanto. Menurut dia, saat ini sudah ada kapal rumah sakit, KRI Soeharso. KRI Semarang 594 (photo : Masyhudi) "Penambahan kedua saat ini adalah kita memfungsikan satu LPD. Kita tempatkan beberapa kapsul atau kontainer yang bisa digunakan untuk korban bencana. Jadi praktis kita sudah memiliki dua kapal LPD, satu Soeharso satu lagi LPD yang difungsikan untuk...

17 Januari 2019 Progres pembangunan kapal-kapal LST di PT DRU Lampung (all photos : PT DRU) Bertempat di galangan kapal PT Daya Radar Utama (DRU) di Panjang, Lampung berlangsung pengerjaan 3 kapal LST pesanan TNI AL. Ketiga kapal ini merupakan pesanan Kementerian Pertahanan yang pemotongan baja pertamanya (first steel cutting) telah dimulai pada April 2017. Ketiga kapal LST yang diberi kode AT-5, AT-6, dan AT-7 ini akan menyusul 2 kapal serupa yang sudah diserahkan PT DRU kepada TNI AL yaitu KRI Teluk Bintuni 520 dan KRI Teluk Lada 521 sebagai bagian dari peremajaan kapal-kapal milik TNI AL. Dalam gambar yang diposting pada bulan lalu oleh PT DRU tampak bahwa kapal-kapal LST ini konstruksinya telah hampir selesai. Selanjutnya kapal akan dilakukan peluncuran dan penyelesain kapal dapat berpindah ke dok basah. Kapal pendarat tank dengan panjang 117 meter dan berat maksimal 2.350 ton ini mampu membawa 15 unit tank BMP-3F Marinir TNI AL atau 10 unit tank Leopard TNI AD, mempunyai kecepatan...

15 Januari 2019 FF-15 BRP Gregorio del Pilar (photo : Surigao News) MANILA -- The Philippine Navy (PN) flagship BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15), which ran aground off Hasa-Hasa Shoal last August, is expected to be available for operations before the end of 2019. This was confirmed by Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad, PN flag-officer-in-command, during a chance interview shortly after the New Year's Call in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City Tuesday. This is due to the damage sustained by the ship's two propellers from the grounding which required total replacement. "Kailangan kasi makuha pa 'yung propellers (sa US) kasi sira 'yung propellers. So magiging available pa siya mga end of the year pa. Kung mapabilis ung pag-deliver ng propellers, then maaayos namin kaagad. But ang magko-control ng work na yan is 'yung (availability) ng propellers. (We need to get the propellers from the US because these were the ones that were damaged. It will be available by yearend. If the del...

14 Januari 2019 High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) with Air Launch Accessory (ALA) (image : Boeing) WASHINGTON – Airborne weapons experts at the Boeing Co. are building add-on kits to create flying torpedoes that can attack submerged enemy submarines from long ranges and from high altitudes. The Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington announced a $9.3 million order Wednesday to the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in St. Louis to design and build the High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability (HAAWC) Air Launch Accessory (ALA). The HAAWC ALA enables the Raytheon MK 54 lightweight torpedo carried aboard the Navy Boeing P-8A Poseidon long-range maritime patrol jet to glide through the air from altitudes as high as 30,000 feet, essentially transforming the torpedo into a glide weapon that the P-8A aircraft can release from high altitudes. As the flying torpedo nears the water, it jettisons its wings and tail and takes on its original...

14 Januari 2019 BRP Conrado Yap PS-39 ex ROKS PCC-762 Chungju (image : PN) After all the self-inflicted delays, the transfer of a Pohang-class corvette to the Philippine Navy (PN) is indeed finally happening before the middle of 2019. Aside from the press statement made by the Philippine Navy's Flag Officer in Command (FOIC) Vice Adm. Robert Empedrad confirming that the Pohang-class corvette donated by the South Korean government will be delivered by March or April 2019, MaxDefense was also able to obtain similar information from several defense and naval sources. Based on the FOIC's statements alone, the assigned officers and crew members of the ship will be departing for South Korea before the end of January 2019. MaxDefense sources added that there are still possible delays, although the full deployment of all crewmembers to South Korea will definitely be completed before February 2019 ends. The ship involved, the former ROKN Pohang-class combat corvette ROKS Chungju (PCC-76...

12 Januari 2019 Senjata 20mm di haluan kapal (photo : TNI AL) Jakarta, Gatra.com- TNI Angkatan Laut menambah kekuatan dengan diterimanya dua Kapal Angkatan Laut (KAL) yang diserahkan Direktur PT. Tesco Indomaritim, Jamin Basuki kepada Kadismatal Laksamana Pertama TNI Kasih Prihantoro. Selanjutnya kapal diserahkan kepada Asisten Logistik (Aslog) Kasal, Laksamana Muda TNI Mulyadi bertempat di Pantai Mutiara Indah, Jakarta Utara. Kamis, (10/1). Dua KAL produksi dalam negeri itu memiliki spesifikasi panjang 28 meter, lebar 6,20 meter dan mampu mengangkut 15 ABK. Kapal dilengkapi dengan satu buah senjata mitraliur 20 mm berada di haluan dan dua buah senjata 12,7 mm di buritan. Kapal berbahan pelat aluminium alloy 5083-H116 dan aluminium alloy 6061.  Aslog Kasal dalam amanatnya menyampaikan bahwa, penyerahan dua unit KAL 28 M dengan nama KAL Limboto dan KAL Wayabula, kepada Lanal Gorontalo dan Lanal Morotai dengan tujuan KAL yang diserahkan tersebut, dapat dipergunakan untuk menjaga keam...

12 Januari 2019 Indonesia is edging closer towards acquiring three more diesel-electric submarines from South Korea. The country has been studying several vessel types for the requirement, but considerations of commonality and maintenance costs have led to the current frontrunner (photo : Jane's) Officials from the Indonesian Ministry of Defence are currently in negotiations with state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL and South Korean company Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) for a follow-on order of three Type 209/1400 diesel-electric submarines. A series of verifications carried out by Jane's since early January 2019 with multiple industry and government sources has confirmed that the negotiations pertain to workshare arrangements that can be undertaken for each vessel and South Korean defence credit programmes that can be utilised to fund the acquisition. Should it materialise, the contract, which includes a support and training package across all three submarines, i...

11 Januari 2019 USCGS Midgett will be decommissioned in 2019, and USCGS Mellon WHEC-717 in 2020 (photo : Mike Griffiths) The Philippines will consider accepting United States Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutter if offered by the United States. However, the Philippines will not “actively” request for the transfer, National Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said. “We will not actively ask for it. Pag offer nila sa atin, titignan natin kung pabor sa atin,” Secretary Lorenzana said as quoted by Manila Bulletin. The United States government is in the process of replacing Hamilton-class cutters with Legend-class cutters. Nine Hamilton-class cutters were already decommissioned and transferred to Philippines, Vietnam, Nigeria, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Three are already in active Philippine Navy service: BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15), BRP Ramon Alcaraz (FF-16), and BRP Andres Bonifacio (FF-17). Three more Hamilton-class cutters are in active US Coast Guard service. “Definitely, hindi tayo hih...

10 Januari 2019 Dermaga Tawiri, Ambon (photo : Kompas) Danlantamal IX Dampingi Menteri Keuangan RI Resmikan Dermaga TNI AL Tawiri Ambon Komandan Lantamal IX Laksamana Pertama TNI Antongan Simatupang mendampingi Menteri Keuangan RI Sri Mulyani Indrawati meresmikan Dermaga TNI Angkatan Laut di Desa Tawiri Ambon. Rabu (09/01/2019). Pada peresmian fasilitas negara tersebut Menkeu RI juga didampingi oleh Menteri Pekerjaan Umum RI Basuki Hadimuljono, Gubernur Maluku Ir. Said Assagaff, Wakil Gubernur Maluku Zeth Sahuburua serta Kepala Pekerjaan Umum dan Penataan Ruang Provinsi Maluku Ismael Usemahu. Menteri Keungan RI pada kesempatan itu menyampaikan bahwa pembangunan fasilitas ini sesuai dengan program Bapak Presiden RI yaitu pemerataan pembangunan dan peningkatan kesejahteraan masyarakat di seluruh wilayah NKRI, diharapkan semoga seluruh pembangunan yang telah terlaksana dapat berguna dan bermanfaat bagi seluruh rakyat khususnya di Provinsi Maluku. Gubernur Maluku menambahkan bahwa setelah ...

10 Januari 2019 South Korean Pohang-class corvette ROKS Chungju (PCC-762) (photo : Reddit) Philippine Navy personnel who will man the donated South Korean Pohang-class corvette, formerly ROKS Chungju (PCC-762), are expected to depart within this month to train in South Korea. Training may be completed March or April. The information was stated by Navy chief Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad said at the sidelines of Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) 2019 New Year’s Call held at the AFP Commissioned Officers’ Club in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City January 8. Empedrad said that when delivered, the said corvette may help BRP Ramon Alcaraz (FF-16) and BRP Andres Bonifacio (FF-17) in patrol missions while BRP Gregorio del Pilar (FF-15) is undergoing repairs. “Okay lang naman ‘yung dalawa, gumagana naman yung dalawa. And then this March, makukuha na natin ‘yung corvette [donated] by South Korea so baka ma-deliver na yun. Papunta na kasi ‘yung personnel natin for training by January, so kung March...

09 Januari 2019 PN AW-159 Wildcat helicopter (photo : Maxdefense) MANILA -- The Philippine Navy (PN) is expected to receive in March its first two anti-submarine helicopters and four out of eight amphibious assault vehicles it has ordered for the Marine Corps. This was disclosed by PN flag-officer-in-command Vice Admiral Robert Empedrad during a chance interview shortly after the New Year's Call at the AFP Commissioned Officers' Club in Camp Aguinaldo, Quezon City Tuesday. "(Aside from the two anti-submarine) helicopters, 'yung (the) amphibious assault vehicles (AAVs) ng (of the) Marines. Eight yun (order) pero four ang darating ngayong (but four of them will arrive in) March. Maganda 'yung capability nun (It has good capability)," he added. Empedrad was referring to the AgustaWestland AW-159 "Wildcat" anti-submarine helicopter, which the PN has contracted for two units worth PHP5.4 billion, including weapons, mission essential equipment and integrat...

09 Januari 2019 Kapal Cepat Rudal KCR-60M (photos : BUMN, PAL) Kementerian Pertahanan (Kemenhan) pada tahun anggaran 2019 memesan 4 unit kapal perang tipe Kapal Cepat Rudal 60 Meter (KCR 60 M) dari PT PAL Indonesia. Empat unit tersebut terdiri dari 2 unit KCR 60 dengan paket platform plus sewaco dan 2 unit KCR 60 dengan paket sewaco. Kapal perang ini nantinya akan digunakan oleh TNI AL. Kontrak pembuatan KCR 60 akan dilakukan selama 36 bulan ke depan di galangan milik PT PAL Indonesia di Surabaya. "Kita dapat kontrak 4 unit, untuk pembangunan dan pemasangan senjata," Corporate Secretary PT PAL Indonesia Rariya Budi Harta kepada kumparan, Senin (7/1). Lanjut Rariya, KCR 60 dirancang oleh Divisi Desain PT PAL Indonesia. KCR 60 merupakan kapal perang hasil pengembangan dari kapal perang tipe Fast Patrol Boat (FPB) 57 Meter. Kapal perang tipe FPB 57 awalnya dikembangkan dan diproduksi oleh BUMN perkapalan ini bersama galangan kapal perang luar negeri. Setelah menguasai teknologi ...

08 Januari 2019 Ship based BrahMos cruise missile (photo : BrahMos Aerospace) India exploring sale of BrahMos cruise missile to Indonesia India has earlier held talks with the Vietnam government for the sale of the BrahMos, a supersonic cruise missile developed by an Indo-Russian joint venture set up in 1998. The Indian Navy inducted the missile on its frontline warships in 2005. India is exploring the possibility of selling the BrahMos cruise missile to Indonesia, and a team from the Indo-Russian joint venture that makes the weapon system visited a state-run shipyard in Surabaya last year to assess the fitting of the missile on Indonesian warships, people familiar with developments said. Besides the BrahMos, India has offered to supply coastal defence radars and marine grade steel to Indonesia and to service the Russian-made Su-30 combat jets flown by the Indonesian air force as part of efforts to deepen bilateral defence and military cooperation, the people said. India has earlier he...

07 Januari 2019 PMC LAV-150 Commando (photo : Rhk111) According to confirmation obtained by MaxDefense Philippines, Indian company Larsen & Toubro (L&T) Group is the lowest bidder for Department of National Defense (DND)-Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP)’s Light Armor System Upgrade (LARSU) Acquisition Project for Philippine Navy and Philippine Air Force. MaxDefense added that it was informed that the post qualification inspection started late 2018. The acquisition project has an approved budget of PHP711,938,000.00 for the upgrade of Marines’ and Air Force’s Light Armor Vehicles (LAVs). “The Philippine Marine Corps has come up with this project in order to enhance the operational readiness of line units. That LAV vehicle has proven effective in the conduct of armor combat support in amphibious and mechanized operations ashore,” says in the project’s bidding documents. “The importance of light armored assets in urban security operations is clearly manifested in the recent ...

07 Januari 2019 It seems the name HTMS 471 name has been changed HTMS Bhumibol Adulyadej (photo :  Natthaphin Panarak) The Navy sent a group of ships to welcome Bhumibol Adulyadej Royal Boat, a new high-performance frigate ship that will enhance its abilities with 3D combat capabilities travel through the waves to the Gulf of Thailand. Preparing to be active on January 7, 2019. At 16.00 o'clock on 5 January 2019, Bhumibol Adulyadej Royal Boat high performance frigate boats which received the title from His Majesty the King Bintornthep Thep Yarangkun instead of the original name of the Royal Thachin boat getting into Thai waters to prepare to attend the reception and boarded the ship on 7 January 2019 at Laem Thian Pier Sattahip Naval Base, Chonburi Province by the frigate ship from DSME-DAEWOO Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering CO., LTD. Luechai Ruddit, Commander in Chief of Royal Thai Navy, is the president of the ceremony. The Royal Navy has organized the Royal Naresuan Boa...

05 Januari 2019 KAAV of the Philippine Marine Corps (photo : Kim Dae Young's) PHL’s ordered amphibious assault vehicle photo surface online A photo of an Amphibious Assault Vehicles (AAVs) believed to be one of the eight ordered from South Korean manufacturer Hanwha Techwin for the Philippine Marine Corps (PMC) was uploaded by Kim Dae Young's on its social networking page January 4. The Philippine Marines is set to receive a total of 8 brand new AAVs ordered from South Korean manufacturer Hanwha Techwin. Four are expected to be delivered in April 2019, while final four are expected August 2019. In October 2018, the PMC personnel undergone training on AAV operation with their Korean counterparts. “The Philippines is the first export market for new-build KAAVs made by Hanwha Techwin (formerly Samsung Techwin) which is a licensed version of the American BAE Systems AAV7A1 amphibious assault vehicle. 8 units were ordered by the PMC under a Php2.423 billion contract signed in 2015 ...