some of the ships got different weapons, some got russian gatling, looks like they still tinkering what to put on it

Indonesia - AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs)

WASHINGTON, Mar. 10, 2016 - The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Indonesia for AIM-120C-7 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles (AMRAAMs), equipment, training, and logistics support. The estimated cost is $95 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale on March 9, 2016.

The Government of Indonesia has requested a possible sale of thirty-six (36) AIM-120C-7 AMRAAMs and one (1) Missile Guidance Section. Also included in this possible sale are; control section support equipment, spare parts, services, logistics, technical contractor engineering and technical support, loading adaptors, technical publications, familiarization training, test equipment, and other related elements. The total estimated value of MDE is $80 million. The overall total estimated value is $95 million.

This proposed sale contributes to the foreign policy and national security of the United States by helping to improve the security of a key partner that has been, and continues to be, an important force for political stability and economic progress in the Asia-Pacific region.

The proposed sale improves Indonesia’s capability to deter regional threats and strengthen its homeland defense. Indonesia is able to absorb this additional equipment and support into its armed forces.

The proposed sale of this equipment and support does not alter the basic military balance in the region.

The prime contractor will be determined by competition. There are no known offset agreements proposed in connection with this potential sale.

Implementation of this proposed sale will not require the assignment of any U.S. Government or contractor representatives to Indonesia.

There will be no adverse impact on U.S. defense readiness as a result of this proposed sale.

This notice of a potential sale is required by law and does not mean the sale has been concluded.

i see, so the kcr-60 is improved version of the kcr-40? looks very much a same design

British Army ditches Warthog armoured vehicle

Nicholas de Larrinaga, London - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
10 March 2016


The British Army has retired its Warthog (ST Kinetics Bronco) articulated armoured tracked vehicles, seen here in service in Afghanistan. Source: Crown Copyright

Key Points

• The ST Kinetics Warthog has been retired from British Army service
• The move is a U-turn on previous plans to keep the vehicle in service

The British Army has retired is ST Kinetics Warthog articulated tracked armoured vehicles from service, IHS Jane's can reveal.

In total, 115 Warthogs (an improved version of the ST Kinetics Bronco) were purchased by the United Kingdom as an urgent operational requirement (UOR) for use in Afghanistan instead of the less-well protected BvS 10 Viking articulated tracked vehicle.

In December 2013 the MoD announced that 100 Warthogs would be brought into the 'core' equipment budget, meaning they would remain in service once UOR funding for operations in Afghanistan ended. Under this plan the Warthogs would be modified and transferred to the Royal Artillery's 32 and 47 Regiments to support unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations.

However, speaking to IHS Jane's on 10 March, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) stated that this decision had been reversed, with Warthog instead having been retired from service in October 2015.

In a statement the MoD said: "Warthog was delivered in 2010 to replace Viking and was designed specifically for use in Afghanistan. A number of protected mobility vehicles have been brought into core; it was decided that the capability required from Warthog could be delivered by other vehicles, therefore Warthog was withdrawn from service in 2015. The Army has a fleet of other protected mobility platforms still in service delivering this capability."

The MoD were not able to answer questions from IHS Jane's on whether work was indeed undertaken to modify Warthog for post-Afghan use after the 2013 decision to keep them, or if any money was wasted on this effort. The MoD also did not answer questions on exactly what vehicles 32 and 47 regiments would operate instead of the Warthog in the future.

last 4 unit (total 8 unit) KCR-40s is built by PT Citra Shipyard have small different hull with KC-40 built by PT Palindo.
also KCR-40 last unit KRI 648 which is improve version with ship hull design change & some enhancement。

Germany approves arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Oman: ministry letter

Mon Mar 14, 2016 8:12am EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has approved several arms export deals with countries in the Middle East, including delivery of 23 Airbus helicopters to Saudi Arabia, according to an Economy Ministry letter seen by Reuters on Monday.

Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has vowed to be much more cautious in licensing arms exports, unnerving Germany's sizeable defense industry and signaling a change in policy from the previous coalition government under which sales rose.

However, in a letter to lawmakers in the Bundestag lower house of parliament's economy committee, Gabriel said the government's Federal Security Council had also approved a deal by Heckler & Koch to deliver 660 machine guns, 660 additional gun barrels and 550 sub-machine guns to Oman.

It also gave the green light for Heckler & Koch's delivery of 130 machine pistols and automatic rifles to the United Arab Emirates and allowed Rheinmetall to export 65,000 mortar cartridges to the country, the document showed.

The government also approved the delivery of five military helicopters by Airbus to Thailand and the export of nearly 490 machine pistols and automatic rifles by Heckler & Koch to Indonesia.

In January, Gabriel said Germany may look harder at its arms exports to Saudi Arabia after the Gulf kingdom carried out its biggest mass execution for decades.

In addition, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has repeatedly said that Berlin wants to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East.

(Reporting by Sabine Siebold,; Writing by Michael Nienaber; Editing by Toby Chopra)

15 March 2016

Could the F-35 Finally Make its Way to Singapore?

Keiren Goh



Singapore’s acquisition of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II has shifted from an unlikely possibility to a plausible probability in recent months.

The F-35 is being touted as a state-of-the-art fifth generation fighter, described as only second to the U.S. Air Force’s prized F-22 in air-to-air capabilities and the best in air-to-ground abilities. While many Western and pro-West states, such as the UK and Japan, have already received the F-35, the tiny city-state of Singapore has been a financial contributor as a ‘Security Cooperative Partner’ in the F-35 programme since its launch in 2003, though they since remained characteristically tight lipped on any involvement.

This changed in 2013, when Minister of Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen announced that they were in the ‘final stages of evaluating the F-35’. In December last year, Dr Ng was given a tour of F-35 training facilities at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona where he told reporters that he was ‘pleased’ with the progress of the F-35 programme and that it continued to ‘tick boxes’ in evaluation. These recent developments, along with an appearance of a replica F-35 at the Singapore Airshow suggests that Singapore’s interest in the programme is higher than ever.

Singapore’s move for the F-35 is atypical; the state has exhibited a preference for depending on their own industry for military equipment. When required to look abroad, the usual defence procurement habit has been to purchase second-hand or slightly dated equipment, before refurbishing and modernising it. Recent examples of this include Singapore’s acquisition and refurbishment of second-hand Leopard II tanks in 2006 and the purchase of heavily upgraded F-15 fighters that became operational in 2013. Despite the tradition of obtaining hand-me-downs, Singapore’s military is already considered the most advanced in South East Asia. Thus, a move alongside Western states for the brand new F-35 is intriguing.

The F-35 would no doubt enhance the RSAF’s capability. The F-35 programme’s director of business development Steve Over said that the F-35 is equipped to handle ‘today’s developing advanced threat systems’ which fourth-generation aircraft, still in use by US and Singapore air forces, may not be able to handle.

Have the 35 improve recently,

All I know is that the f35 is unbelievably bad overall last time

Or sinkie buy to counter indon su35?

Or because want Uncle Sam happy happy?

In recent years Indonesia and Malaysia, along with the rest of Southeast Asia, have  increased their defence budgets and have started modernising their armouries. Malaysia’s air force suffers from being overly diverse, outdated, and expensive to maintain, and seeks to replace several aging aircraft with modern alternatives. Malaysia has already procured a number of modern Sukhoi Su-30 fighters from Russia, and is looking to further expand its fleet by forty modern aircraft by 2020. Indonesia’s air force is similarly outdated, but they have announced that they will be adding the multi-role Su-35 to their fledging fleet of sixteen modern Su-27 and Su-30 aircraft. The Su-35 is a 4++ generation aircraft, meaning that it is placed just below the F-35. However, even without the F-35 the RSAF still outmatches the new Malaysian and Indonesian air forces, but it is unsurprising that the RSAF is evaluating a fifth generation aircraft in order to maintain its defence premium in the face of their neighbour’s modernisation programme.

I have never heard of malaysia want to add more su-30.
Probably just to justify singapore need f35.

Israeli?
I remember this is some sort of German Army sniper photobook!

TNI-AD helicopter crashed, 13 killed, struck by lightning.

http://m.merdeka.com/peristiwa/heli-tni-ad...rkan-tewas.html

Sunday, 20 March 2016 09:10

Pictures: Indonesia's First Type 209/1200 Submarine Out of Construction Hall at DSME
 
Pictures have emerged showing Indonesian Navy's (TNI AL) first Type 209/1200 Chang Bogo Class diesel electric submarine (SSK) derivative out of the construction hall at DSME (Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co., Ltd) shipyard in South Korea.
     
The pictures show the first submarine of the series, KRI Nagabanda (hull number 403) being moved out of the construction hall on a Self-Propelled Modular Transporter (SPMT).

South Korea's DSME signed a contract in 2011 that calls for the construction of three 1,400-ton submarines (in collaboration with local shipyard PT PAL) for the Indonesian Navy for a total of $1.1 billion. The contract marked Korea's largest single export defense contract and the first submarine export contract as well.

DSME is set to built the first two submarines, KRI Nagabanda (hull number 403) and KRI Trisula (404) in South Korea while PT PAL should built the third hull KRI Nagarangsang (405) in Indonesia. PT PAL could also build follow-on hulls in the future.
     
The first two submarines are expected to be delivered in 2017 and 2018. Delivery of the third unit is not clear yet.

According to DSME, the vessels will be of 61.3 meters in length, and will be capable of carrying a crew of 40 sailors. These submarines will be fully armed with eight weapon tubes able to discharge all kinds of torpedoes, mines, and guided missiles.

The submarines will be equipped with Indra's Pegaso RESM system and Aries low-probability of intercept radar, Atlas Electronic CSU 90 hull-mounted passive and active search-and-attack sonar and flank sonar arrays, L-3's MAPPS integrated platform management systems and Sagem's Sigma 40XP inertial navigation systems.

O&G Ships for Patrols?

Marhalim Abas March 22, 2016 Malaysia- MMEA

SHAH ALAM: IT appears that APMM is moving towards using idle Oil and Gas (O&G) industry ships to augment its patrol fleet. Not much details on the proposed move yet apart from a tweet by APMM chief Datuk Ahmad Puzi Abd Kahar this morning.

I am trying to get more details but its likely that the APMM will lease Malaysian-flagged O&G ships laid idle by the low oil prices. How many and when it will start is the unknown at the moment. It must be noted that due to the Petroleum Development Act 194, ships involved in the local O&G industry must be Malaysian-flagged.

The proposed programme is under the National Blue Ocean Strategy (NBOS) just like how the RMN uses Bunga Mas Lima and Tun Azizan ships.

For a better perspective on using non-naval ships for patrol duties, read the excellent post by Think Defence on the issue. Go Here

One of own regular reader – … – has also proposed using O&G ships by the APMM for patrols to overcome the country’s financial constraints. It appears that APMM is also thinking the same thing.

Like its sister services, APMM is hampered by the uncertainty in funding – both in operational and procurement programmes. By leasing idle O&G ships it may be able to conduct more patrols in Malaysian waters especially it is saddled with one of the oldest patrol fleet in the region.

APMM is expected to operate six new patrol boats by 2018 with another two OPVs expected to come on line by 2020 – if the funding is not disrupted due to the current economic headwinds.