Selex to support Malaysian Navy’s Super Lynx MK100 helicopters

16 April 2014

Selex ES, a Finmeccanica company, has been awarded a contract by AIROD SDN BHD for the supply and support of equipment onboard the Royal Malaysian Navy's Super Lynx MK100 helicopters.

The contract was signed by AIROD CEO YBhg colonel Dato' Mohammed Selamat bin Bakin and Selex ES Asia regional director Barry Anstey at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2014 exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.

Under the three-year agreement, Selex will supply spares and provide support for the MK100's sensors, specifically the Guardian 2500 electronic-support measures, the Seaspray 3600 surveillance radar and the multi-mission turret.

Barry Anstey said: "We are committed to deliver the Malaysian Navy our best expertise and are looking forward to further develop our relationship with the industry and the Government in Malaysia."

"Selex will supply spares and provide support for the MK100's sensors."

Powered by two Rolls-Royce Gem 42-1 turboshaft engines, the aircraft is fitted with a non-retractable tricycle-type landing gear and can carry a range of depth charges, including the Mark 11 and torpedoes such as the Mark 44, Mark 46, the A244S and the Stingray.

Additional features include 360° scan radar, and either the BAE Systems (now Selex S&AS) Seaspray Mark 3000 or the Telephonics RDR 1500, which are mounted in the chin fairing under the nose.

also most importance is Gas turbine more silent compare to diesel engine, 
due our ship is ASW version, gas turbine less noise help reduce interference/disturbing to sonar system.   

Thursday, 17 April, 2014 | 01:06 WIB

PT PAL to Produce Frigates

TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - PT PAL is set to produce three frigates (PKR-105) in tandem with the Netherlands' Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS). Navy’s chief of staff Admiral Marsetio said the frigates would be constructed together with DSNS through a scheme of technology transfer.

The PKR-105 frigate is designed to be 105-meter-long and equipped with missile interceptors, torpedoes, and other electronic warfare devices. The US$220 million ship will also don a torpedo-carrying chopper.

Marsetio said that a unit of PKR-105 had six modules, four of which were assembled in Surabaya while the rest in Vlisingen, the Netherlands. The admiral added the modules would be completed by March 2015. "The three frigates will help secure the Indonesian waters," he said.

Dutch ambassador to Indonesia Tjeerd F. de Zwaan said the Dutch government would support the transfer of technology, adding that Indonesia needed to revitalize its warship industry due to its geographical trait as as coastal nation.

As for the transfer of technology program, the CEO of PT PAL, Firmansyah Arifin, said he had sent 75 technicians to the Netherlands.



DIANANTA P. SUMEDI

PT. PAL begins construction of the Indonesian Navy's Sigma PKR 10514 with the Keel Laying Ceremony of the 1st ship out of 3 ordered.
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so ...indo sigma pkr @220million with 2400 tons, our Gowind 3000tons with 500 million with near similar weapon (radar, Mica-VL, Exocet B3)  ... more and more think our Gowind too expensive, better just built 2400tons Gowind, or MekoA100 2200 tons with same weapon.

Gowind will have buffer space to allocate up to 24-32 cell vls.
btw 500mil only if use essm.
Sigma use exocet b2 iinm.
I dun think gowind will be cheaps from the beginning as we have to pay for the development money as well.
but than again meko cls cost about usd 600mil or more on the similar weapons system.
The only thing that I dissapointed about is it lack of proper ciws.

Anggota tentera wanita Republik Indonesia (dari kiri) Andi Nurita, Riana Yaumil Azmi dan Emelia Vifa (kanan) bersama Hawk Aircraft Cockpit Avionics 100/200 Series di bilik pameran negara Indonesia sempena Pameran Perkhidmatan Pertahanan Asia (DSA) kali Ke-14 di Pusat Dagangan Dunia putra (PWTC). Sebanyak 1,000 syarikat industri pertahanan tempatan dan antarabangsa dari 50 negara menyertai pameran empat hari itu yang berakhir hari Khamis.



Source: Bernama

ternaik hawk aku tengok cewek

(Source: RIA Novosti; published April 15, 2014)

MOSCOW --- The Russian Defense Ministry has signed a $470 million contract with the MiG Corporation for the delivery of 16 advanced MiG-29 SMT fighters, the ministry said Tuesday.

The company had earlier confirmed the deal in an interview with RIA Novosti, but did not specify its value.

“The value of the contract, including the ground support and test equipment, is more than 17 billion rubles. The contract is a strategic measure for maintaining the combat readiness of the lightweight fighter fleet,” the Defense Ministry said in the statement.

As of last year, the Russian Air Force had 28 of the fighters, a single-seat upgraded version of the MiG-29 SM fighter capable of using smart air-to-surface weapons.

The MiG-29 SMT, developed in the first half of the 2000s, features add-on fuselage fuel tanks for extended range, special radar-absorbing paint, and can be outfitted with supersonic and anti-ship missiles. The plane can perform ‘blind’ bombing runs at night, as well as reconnaissance missions.

The Defense Ministry also plans to sign a contract for the delivery of 4++ generation MiG-35S fighters after 2016, with about 100 to be built in the near future, a spokesman for the ministry told reporters Tuesday.

The move will help optimize the ratio of light and heavy fighters in the Russian Air Force, the ministry said.

source Link

Maybe RMAF may consider back Mig29 SMT or event Mig-35, price is so cheap. we can use back all weapon form Mig29 or same form su-30

let wait and see on final spec  ... not much different 16~32 if with mica VL. any way only 20km range. event get easy attack by heli which carry small Anti Ship Missile with range 2x~30km.
exocet b3, only 1+ million extra cost from B2 , plus launchers, cost just 10~20 million different only.   
hope essm ... but look like not much hope... some person said it is ASW version, so unlikely with ESSM....
meko cls most advantage is speed up to 45 knot and radar system, and design more stealth than many stealth ship ... design for intercept ... if compare to gowind, i more like meko cls. and cls 2800 tons, perfect for RMN.

then, the cycle of problem reoccur.

what is cycle of problem?

current Mig29smt or Mig35 is totally different from 20 year ago Mig29.

Defence Services Asia: Malaysian Navy decision omits UAV capability

16th April 2014 - 4:45
by Dzirhan Mahadzir in Kuala Lumpur

The Chief of the Royal Malaysian Navy, Admiral Tan Sri Aziz Jaafar, has confirmed that the RMN’s planned 6-ship Second Generation Patrol Vessel – Littoral Combat Ship (SGPV-LCS), will not have an integral rotary wing UAV capability as originally planned.

Speaking to Shephard, Admiral Tan Sri Aziz stated, ‘it is now low on our priority list for the capabilities of the ship and unlikely to be on the ship’. He declined to confirm as to whether the cost of such a capability would put it beyond the RM9 billion (USD2.77billion) ceiling price in the contract awarded to Boustead Naval Shipyards though he stated that Malaysian Armed Forces outlook on UAVs was that it was preferable that all three services look towards long range and long endurance fixed wing UAVs for their operational use.

Originally the plan called for all 6 of the 3,000t SGPV-LCS, which is based on the DCNS Gowind design to have the capability to operate a rotary wing UAV with each ship though only two of the ships at any one time would carry and operate UAVs on operations as it was felt that it would be too costly to outfit each ship with its own permanently assigned UAV. It is likely that the fact that the SGPV-LCS has an embarked helicopter capability made the forgoing of a UAV capability acceptable.

Planned construction of the SGPV-LCS is scheduled to begin later this year with the first ship to be delivered in 2017 and subsequent ships delivered every six months thereafter.

Indonesian Navy set to have domestically built frigate in 2016

Wahyoe Boediwardhana, The Jakarta Post, Surabaya | National | Thu, April 17 2014, 10:41 AM

The Indonesian Navy will soon have its own domestically made frigate when the construction of the PKR 10514 guided-missile destroyer escort is completed in 2016.

Navy chief of staff Adm. Marsetio led a keel laying ceremony for the PKR, which the navy classifies as a frigate, at the state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL Indonesia in Surabaya on Wednesday. The warship is being built under the supervision of Dutch shipbuilder Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS).

“The PKR frigate will have the modern surface warfare capabilities being equipped with [anti-ship] Exocet missile, anti-submarine warfare with torpedoes, anti-aircraft warfare and electronic warfare,” Marsetio said after the ceremony.

The new warship is the largest to be built domestically with a length of 105 meters and a width of 14 meters.

Marsetio was accompanied by the Defense Ministry’s Defense Facilities Agency chief Rear Adm. Rachmat Lubis, Dutch Ambassador to Jakarta Tjeerd F de Zwan, and DSNS CEO Hen van Ameijden.

The Defense Ministry ordered two PKR 10514s with a contract of US$220 million. The first steel cutting was conducted  in January to mark the start of the frigate construction.

Rachmat said the contract already covered training for PT PAL’s engineers both at home and in the Netherlands and weaponry for the frigates, which must include domestically made weapon systems.

“Initially the warship was to be fully built abroad but after some 175 discussions, it was agreed that the production would be conducted jointly with PT PAL,” he said.

The construction is divided into six modules, of which four would be built at PT PAL’s facility while the remaining two, engine and bridge, would be built in Vlissingen.

“Once finished, the two modules from the Netherlands would be brought and assembled here at PT PAL,” Marsetio said.

The navy chief guarnateed that although most of the modules were to be built in Indonesia, the quality would still be the same with those made in the Netherlands construction would be conducted under the direct supervision of a special DSNS team.

The first ship is expected to be completed in December 2016 while the second frigate in October 2017.

Meanwhile, van Ameijden was upbeat that the cooperation would go smoothly.

“Early January there was nothing here [the shipyard] but today we can see [....] there is good progress. [the project] is still ongoing,” he said. (nvn)

Defence Services Asia: Havelsan MoU aims to enhance Malaysian EW capability

16th April 2014 - 5:02
by Andrew White in Kuala Lumpur

Havelsan has agreed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Malaysian company Impressive Communications to collaborate on electronic warfare (EW) database management and information systems for the Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF).

Signed on 15 April at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) exhibition in Kuala Lumpur, the MoU is aimed at improving MAF’s EW competence and will comprise a long-term relationship to jointly develop software based on Havelsan’s existing solutions.  A Havelsan spokesperson said the initiative would ‘constitute the backbone of future expansion of EW capabilities in the country’.

The MoU was signed by Impressive Communications CEO Tan Sri Dato Wira Abd Halim Karim and Havelsan’s CEO Sadik Yamac.

Specifically, the agreement will include training of electrical and electronic engineering students in EW at Malaysia’s National Defense University.

The Kuala Lumpur-based Impressive Communications will act as Havelsan’s local partner in Malaysia. Impressive Communications’ Data Collection, Archiving and Transfer Service (DCATS) can be integrated into existing data servers, remote processing sites and processing software. It is capable of capturing, securing, storing and transferring ‘high volume’ data files in real time and comprises a 19-inch rack.

The Royal Malaysian Air Force currently utilises 18 Sukhoi Su-30MKM multirole aircraft for EW missions. The platforms are equipped with KNIRTI SAP-618 advanced jamming pods. MAF also operates EW units in army and navy units.

Havelsan already has a footprint in Asia-Pacific in the EW realm. It currently supports Pakistan which launched its EW Test and Training Range in 2011.

The only thing that I dissapointed about is it lack of proper ciws.