Indonesian president watches failed firings of Chinese-made C-705 missiles at naval exercise

Key Points
-Attempts to launch C-705 missiles from two Indonesian warships during an exercise has failed
-Failures come against the backdrop of increased spending on Chinese-made weapon systems by Jakarta

The Indonesian Navy's (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL's) attempt to successfully launch Chinese-made C-705 anti-ship missiles from two indigenously built attack craft during a major naval exercise has failed, sources from within the service informed IHS Jane's on 15 September.

The missiles, which were deployed onboard the KCR-40-class missile attack craft KRI Clurit (641) and KRI Kujang (642), each failed at different stages of their launches on 14 September.

Clurit and Kujang each fired a single C-705 missile during Exercise 'Armada Jaya' 2016 which was conducted in the Java Sea.

Both attempts were made in full view of Indonesian President Joko Widodo who was there to witness the exercise from onboard the landing platform dock ship KRI Banjarmasin (592). Accompanying him was TNI-AL chief Admiral Ade Supandi, and Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) chief General Gatot Nurmantyo.

According to TNI-AL sources, the first C-705 deployed on Clurit failed to launch upon command, but fired unexpectedly about five minutes later after the ship's crew failed to observe a misfire procedure.

The missile failed to hit its designated target for the exercise, the recently decommissioned Tisza-class auxiliary support ship, Karimata (960). The second C-705 missile, which was fired from Kujang , failed during mid-flight, and subsequently also failed to hit the same target.

http://www.janes.com/article/63815/indones...-naval-exercise

The Janes article is not entirely correct.

1. Only KRI Clurit fired the missile. KRI Kujang did not fired any missile.
2. KRI Clurit did not fired the missile unexpectedly. The countdown by the KRI Clurit commander to launch the missile can be seen from the video below. Credit to babycebong.

http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=2j32ydk&s=9#.V90oYjilbHx

AFAIK the target ex-KRI Karimata was sunk by the torpedo sut.

All medias were on the LPD KRI Banjarmasin together with Jokowi. So they don't know what actually was happening inside KRI Clurit. For medias a bad news is a good news.

from defense pakistan， simple to said C-705 made in indo without GPS/Beidou module，so missile only can shot target from direct radar guidance
Source: http://defence.pk/threads/indonesian-presi...2#ixzz4Kb74UwyC

Why, why, why these people still wear all-black uniforms when fighting in a desert country? 
Not only will they get ridiculously hot, black won't even camouflage them very well. Coz, you know, sand.

singkie also got... msia also got kadet remaja / ns?

what did UK send this time? 2 staff and a biplane?

u gais went through 5 years of PKBM..? walao 

i wonder if we can use parts from that/any crash helicopters as spares. I mean in terms of industrial/technical. are we allowed to do that?

bro.......Nuris are old.......and compared to USAF, RMAF aircraft rarely crash.
You're like typical Malaysian.....MAS' last major accident before MH370 was during the 1970s, but even though MH17 and MH370 had nothing to do with MAS maintenance or aircraft quality, all hop onboard the bash MAS bandwagon