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Indonesia Still Mulling New Submarine Purchase

Which submarine type will Jakarta end up buying?

By Prashanth Parameswaran
December 24, 2015
 
Indonesia has still not made a decision on what type of submarines it will purchase, the country’s navy chief said last week.

As I have noted previously, Indonesia currently only has two German-built Type 209 submarines, woefully inadequate for the world’s largest archipelagic state. Defense officials say Indonesia needs at least 12 submarines by 2024 to police its waters. Indonesia ordered three South Korean submarines back in 2012, and officials had indicated earlier this year that two more new ones would be purchased – most likely from Russia – even though specifics were still unclear (See: “Indonesia to Buy New Submarines From Russia”).

On December 16, according to The Jakarta Post, Ade Supandi, the chief of staff of the Indonesian navy (TNI-AL), clarified that while Jakarta had decided to buy diesel submarines, it is still currently reviewing three types of submarines from three countries: Russia, South Korea, and Germany.

“The Navy and the military headquarters are still conducting a strategic review of the matter,” Supandi said Tuesday.

Indonesia has a record of purchasing submarines from all three countries. The relationship with Russia dates back the furthest, with 12 Whiskey-class submarines purchased from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Those subs were gradually decommissioned – the last in 1990. And as mentioned earlier, Indonesia currently operates two German-built Type 209 submarines – which are expected to be decommissioned by 2020 – and has ordered three Chang Bogo-class submarines from South Korea. In addition to the three candidates, Indonesia also reportedly had government-to-government talks with France earlier this year regarding the Scorpene-class 1000 diesel-electric attack submarines.

"The reason that I want it on an AC-130 is, right now, when an AC-130 starts firing kinetic weaponry, everybody knows you’re there," Heithold said. "What I want on the air

It is called the Strategic Air Command Atomic Weapons Requirements Study for 1959 and was penned in 1956. The 800-plus page study identifies more than 1,100 airfields tagged for destruction, all prioritized in order of their strategic value.

The study goes on to outline proposed weapon strategies for different targets, including particular yields and detonation methods that would cause desired effects, one of which included enveloping the local population in as much fallout as possible. National Security Archive also notes that the report recommends developing a much more powerful bomb than anything in inventory at the time or today: a 60-megaton super-nuke, to be more exact. Keep in mind the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested was Russia’s Tsar Bomb which was gauged at 50 megatons.

"Taliban interests objectively coincide with ours," Zamir Kabulov, head of the department at the Russian foreign ministry responsible for Afghanistan who is also a Kremlin special representative in the country, told Interfax news agency.

"Both the Taliban of Afghanistan and the Taliban of Pakistan have said that they don't recognise (IS leader Abu Bakr) Al-Baghdadi as a caliph, that they don't recognise ISIL," he said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.

Russia considers the Taliban a terrorist group and it is banned in the country, along with the Islamic State group.

The New Republic is fighting a new kind of war … the kind of war superpowers fight now. It uses a small group of resistance fighters to conduct asymmetric operations within its enemy’s territory.

The First Order is fighting a traditional war — like the Empire. But the First Order learns from its predecessor’s mistakes. It builds a weapon of mass destruction and uses it.

It doesn’t play any games. It figures out how to knock out the New Republic’s center of gravity and it does so without remorse or hesitation.

SOFIA - Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have bought large quantities of Soviet-style weapons and ammunition from Bulgaria in the past two years, almost certainly destined for factions in Syria and possibly also Yemen, an investigation has revealed.

Bulgaria makes and stockpiles mainly Soviet-style arms. Analysts say it is highly unlikely Saudi Arabia or the UAE would buy these for their own forces, which use modern Western weapons, and it is therefore much more plausible they bought the munitions for local factions they back in Syria and Yemen, where Soviet-style arms are widely used.

A UN report listed 827 light machine guns and 120 SPG-9 recoilless anti-tank guns as part of Bulgaria’s arms exports to Saudi Arabia in 2014.

The former Bulgarian military officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the weapons purchased by Saudi Arabia were meant for Syrian armed groups opposed to Assad's regime. They were airlifted to the northern Saudi city of Tabuk and then transported to Jordanian-Syrian border, where they were passed on to the Syrian opposition armed groups, he said.

First spotted at a parade in 2012 and 2013 (see photo above), the Musudan missile was clearly a ballistic missile designed with intercontinental range in mind. Musudan was probably developed from the R-27 "Zyb", an obsolete Soviet submarine-launched ballistic missile. With a projected range of 5,592 miles, the missile—known to the Pentagon as the KN-08—could in theory reach the United States with a small, lightweight nuclear weapon.

The Musudan still suffers from a number of drawbacks. The missile travels by road on a wheeled vehicle, and all that movement is not good for sensitive equipment such as ICBMs. The missile is still liquid-fueled, a process that takes hours to complete. Once fueled, the missile must be de-fueled if not immediately used or the corrosive rocket fuel will eat the missile from inside out. And despite all the changes, the improved North Korean ICBM will still be vulnerable to being shot down by anti-ballistic missile systems such as THAAD and Patriot PAC-3.

The most important drawback: The missile has not been tested, and the authors of the report say it won't likely be until 2021 or later.

State-owned publication The Global Times published an inflammatory editorial following revelations an Australian Royal Australian Air Force patrol plane had entered airspace around the contentious area.
In a scratchy radio recording broadcast by the BBC, an RAAF pilot is heard speaking to Chinese navy.
“China navy, China navy,” the voice said.
“We are an Australian aircraft exercising international freedom of navigation rights in international airspace in accordance with the international civil aviation convention and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea — over.”

Chinese enterprises' demand for security overseas is rapidly increasing, but the efforts of private security companies (PSCs) to go abroad are being hindered by insufficient policy support.

According to a report issued by the non-governmental Chahar Institute think tank, the number of Chinese companies going abroad exceeds 40,000 and over 1 million Chinese nationals are working overseas for those companies.

“Blinding laser weapons are primarily used to blind … targets with laser[s] in [the] short distance, or interfere [with] and damage … laser and night vision equipment,” the brief photo report stated.

Jack Daly, a retired naval intelligence officer who suffered eye injuries in 1997 from a laser that was fired at his helicopter by a Russian intelligence-gathering ship near Port Angeles, Washington, said he is concerned the Chinese laser arms could end up in the United States.

On the same day the PLA Daily report on blinding laser rifles was published, the Communist Party-affiliated newspaper Global Times produced a more detailed report that included drawings showing how the lasers are fired at enemy troops.

The Global Times report shows four different types of laser guns, including the BBQ-905 Laser Dazzler Weapon, the WJG-2002 Laser Gun, the PY132A Blinding Laser Weapon, and the PY131A Blinding Laser Weapon.

ULAN BATOR, Dec. 24 (Xinhua) -- A Mongolian Mi-8 helicopter crashed during night training on Wednesday, killing one and injuring 10 others, a military source said.

The crash took place about 50 km east of the capital, according to the source.

Local media reported that the ill-fated helicopter might be making an emergency landing when the incident happened.

The Mongolian military has launched an investigation.

Noteworthy modifications include two new wingtip pods, similar to the Northrop Grumman AN/ALQ-218 Tactical Jamming Receiver, IHS Jane’s reported. These new features have drawn comparisons to the E/A-18G Growler attack variant of Boeing's Super Hornet.

The purported J-16 EW prototype appears to lack the common fuselage-mounted gun. An infrared search and tracking system also appears to be missing. But the J-16, which resembles the Russian Sukhoi Su-30, would have up to 10 wing and fuselage hardpoints for ordnance and active jamming pods, IHS Jane’s reported.

The PLA is known to have developed three tactical electronic warfare pods. The first, similar in size to the EDO Corporation AN/ALQ-99, may come in receiver and transmitter versions, similar to those first seen on Xian Aircraft Corporation JH-7 strike fighters in 2007, IHS Jane’s reported. A smaller KG600 pod also equips JH-7s, while the KG300 appears to be an export variant.