THAAD Theatre High Altitude Area Defense Missile System, USA

The THAAD (Theatre High Altitude Area Defense) missile system is an easily transportable defensive weapon system to protect against hostile incoming threats such as tactical and theatre ballistic missiles at ranges of 200km and at altitudes up to 150km.The THAAD system provides the upper tier of a 'layered defensive shield' to protect high value strategic or tactical sites such as airfields or populations centres. The THAAD missile intercepts exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric threats.

The sites would also be protected with lower- and medium-tier defensive shield systems such as the Patriot PAC-3 which intercepts hostile incoming missiles at 20 to 100 times lower altitudes.

THAAD PROGRAMME

The US Army is expected to acquire 80 to 99 THAAD launchers, 18 ground-based radars and a total of 1,422 THAAD missiles. Two THAAD battalions are planned, each with four batteries.

In 1992 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space and other industrial team partners were awarded a $689m contract to develop the THAAD system. Raytheon was selected as sub-contractor to develop the ground-based radar. Raytheon is responsible for the solid-state receiver / transmitter modules. TRW is responsible for software development. The other main contractors are Raytheon for the traveling wave tubes, Datatape for the data recorders and EBCO for radar turrets.

The THAAD programme entered the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase in 2000. In May 2004, production of 16 flight test missiles began at Lockheed Martin's new production facilities in Pike County, Alabama.

Flight testing, at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, of the EMD system began in 2005. The first flight test of the entire system including missile, launcher, radar and fire control system took place in May 2006. Flight testing began at Pacific Missile Range, Kauai, Hawaii in January 2007 with a successful intercept test in the high endo-atmosphere.

A second successful test took place in April 2007 with intercept in the mid endo-atmosphere. The final White Sands test took place in June 2007, with a low endo-atmosphere test. In October 2007, THAAD performed a successful intercept of a unitary target outside the atmosphere (exo-atmospheric). Tests will continue at PMR till 2009.

In January 2007, Lockheed Martin was awarded a contract for the first two production THAAD systems, to include six launchers, 48 missiles, two radars and two tactical operations centers. Initial Operating Capability (IOC) is expected in 2009.

In August 2007, Lockheed Martin announced that THAAD will be built at its Camden, Arkansas facility.

BATTERY

The THAAD battery will typically operate nine launch vehicles each carrying eight missiles, with two mobile Tactical Operations Centres (TOCs) and a Ground-Based Radar (GBR).

THAAD MISSILE INFORMATION

The target object data and the predicted intercept point are downloaded to the missile prior to launch. The updated target and intercept data are also transmitted to the missile in flight.

The missile is 6.17m in length and is equipped with a single stage solid fuel rocket motor with thrust vectoring. The rocket motor is supplied by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne. The launch weight is 900kg.

A separation motor is installed at the interstage at the forward end of the booster section. The separation motor assists in the separation of the Kinetic Kill Vehicle (KKV) and the spent boost motor.The shroud separates from the KV before impact. The KV is equipped with a liquid-fuelled Divert and Attitude Control System (DACS), developed by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne, for the terminal maneuvering towards the target intercept point.

A gimbal-mounted infrared seeker module in the nose section provides terminal homing to close in on the target missile in the terminal phase of approach.

During the initial fly-out phase of flight, the seeker window is covered with a two-piece clamshell protection shroud. Metal bladders installed in the shroud are inflated to eject the protective shroud before the seeker initiates target acquisition. The infrared seeker head, developed by BAe Systems, is an indium antimonide (InSb) staring focal plane array operating in the mid infrared 3 to 5 micron wavelength band.
M1075 TRUCK MOUNTED LAUNCHER

There are nine M1075 truck mounted launchers in a typical THAAD battery. Launch vehicle is a modified Oshkosh Truck Corporation Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck with Load Handling System (HEMTT-LHS). The 12m-long by 3.25m-wide launch vehicle carries ten missile launch containers. While on the launcher, lead acid batteries provide the primary power. The batteries are recharged with a low-noise generator.

After firing, reloading the launch vehicle takes 30 minutes.

GROUND-BASED RADAR

The cueing for the THAAD system is provided by the Raytheon Systems AN/TPY-2 Ground-Based Radar (GBR) for surveillance, threat classification and threat identification. THAAD can also be cued by military surveillance satellites such as Brilliant Eyes.

The ground based radar units are C-130 air transportable. The AN/TPY-2 radar uses a 9.2m² aperture full field of view antenna phased array operating at I and J bands (X band) and containing 25,344 solid-state microwave transmit and receive modules. The radar has the capability to acquire missile threats at ranges up to 1,000km.

The first production radar is being tested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. In September 2004, the THAAD radar tracked a tactical ballistic missile, cueing a successful intercept by a Patriot PAC-3 missile. A second radar was delivered to White Sands in June 2007.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS CENTRE

Each THAAD battery has two Tactical Operations Centres (TOC). The TOC has been developed by Northrop Grumman, formerly Litton Data Systems Division. The TOC accommodates two operator stations and is equipped with three Hewlett-Packard HP-735 data processors.MOBILE BMC3I UNITS

The THAAD system is able to 'hand over' targets to other defence systems and can cue the targets to other weapons. THAAD is able to interface to other US or allied air defence data information networks and to the battle management and command control and communications centre.

Northrop Grumman has been contracted to develop the THAAD BMC3I. The Battle Management and Command, Control, Computers and Intelligence (BMC3I) units are installed in hardened shelters mounted on High-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs).

The THAAD communications system can use JTIDS, mobile subscriber equipment, SINCGARS and the joint tactical terminal for voice and data communications and for intelligence data transfer.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/thaad/

BILL 2 Anti-Tank Guided Weapon, Sweden

The BILL 2 multi-mission guided weapon is a further development of the successful BILL I (RBS56), which has been in service with the Swedish Army since 1988, and is also in service with the Austrian and Brazilian Armies. BILL 2 is manufactured by Saab Bofors Dynamics, who are based in Karlskoga, Sweden. BILL 2 is also in service with the Swedish Army.

Because of technological advances in fighting vehicle armour including ERA (explosive reactive armour), Bofors have improved the Overfly Top Attack (OTA) technology for BILL 2 and introduced a new double warhead. BILL 2 also incorporates improved guidance accuracy via the rate gyro, which monitors the gunner's tracking movements.

The missile's primary role is to attack armoured targets at the weakest point, using the Overfly Top Attack trajectory. However, due to the three firing modes, it can also engage and destroy hovering helicopters, non-armoured targets and soft targets, such as machine gun nests.

The portable missile system consists of the 10.5kg missile, launch tube, tripod, x 7 magnification day sight and x 1 thermal imaging sight.

MISSILE

The BILL 2 missile system has a SACLOS (semi-automatic command to line-of-sight) guidance system and the missile is wire-guided. The user maintains the target on the boresight of the thermal imaging or day sight, and the missile trajectory is monitored from a laser beacon in the rear of the missile. Predictive tracking algorithms are used to maintain the missile trajectory at the correct offset for the chosen engagement: 1.05m above the line of sight for armoured and soft target attack and along the boresight for non-armoured attack. Guidance signals are sent to the missile via the trailing wire.

The warhead contains both an optical and a magnetic sensor. The optical (laser) sensor functions as a rangefinder, measuring the height of the target beneath the missile and profiling the target simultaneously. The magnetic sensor measures metallic signatures and algorithms recognise the turret or centre of the target and determine the optimum position for the warheads to detonate. The missile has an inertial impact fuze for direct attack as well as a proximity fuze.

The missile has a double vertically striking shaped charge high explosive (HE) warhead. The two shaped charge jets are compensated to direct all the fragments of the jets downwards onto the same spot on the surface of the target. First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank.

The missile system is effective against both static and moving targets with an effective range of 150 to 2,200m. Flight time at maximum range is 13s.

FIRING MODES

Prior to missile launch, the gunner can select any of the following three firing modes.

Basic mode: the missile flies about 1.05m above the line of sight and hits the target from above. All sensors (magnetic and optical) are activated and the algorithms are optimised for a defined threat.

Non-armoured target mode: the missile flies along the line of sight. All sensors are disconnected. The impact fuze is selected.

Soft target mode: the missile flies on the same elevated flight path as in basic mode. The optical sensor is activated, the magnetic sensor deactivated. Special algorithms are used for warhead initiation. This mode can be adapted to suit customer requirements.

VEHICLE MOUNTING

BILL 2 can be mounted on a wide variety of wheeled or tracked fighting vehicles. In 2000, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) awarded a contract to Saab Bofors to produce a technology demonstrator integrating BILL 2 into the turret of the Bofors Defence CV 9040 combat vehicle. The missile system can also be mounted under armour in which three missiles, along with the daysight and thermal imager are mounted on the weapon platform. The missile can then be fired via a remote control unit, by the gunner inside the vehicle. The missile and sights can be dismounted and used with the tripod if necessary.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bofors/

AS 532 U2/A2 Cougar Combat, Search and Rescue Helicopter, Europe

The Eurocopter Company manufactures the Cougar family of twin engine helicopters, of which more than 350 have been ordered. Eurocopter is a subsidiary of EADS (European Aeronautics Defence and Space) company formed by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace of Germany, Aerospatiale Matra of France and CASA of Spain.
The helicopter is in service with 28 air forces, eight armies and five navies. 64 are operational with the French Army. As well as the AS 532 A2 Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) helicopter, there are two other versions of the Cougar: the AS532 Horizon surveillance system operated with a ground station, and the AS532 UB/AB utility version
Recent orders include four for Slovenia which were delivered in 2003/2004 and 12 (four CSAR and eight utility) for Bulgaria, ordered in November 2004. Deliveries for Bulgaria began in August 2006 and are scheduled to conclude in 2009. Spain ordered an additional two transport helicopters in December 2007

DESIGN

The helicopter has a high level of crashworthiness, including impact tolerance and redundancy in vital systems and components. The occupants of the helicopter are protected up to impact velocities of 11.4m/sec. The fuel tanks are self-sealing, with a fuel crossfeed system that provides continuity of supply if one of the fuel circuits fails.

The main rotor and the tail rotor are equipped with high-impact-tolerance Spheriflex hubs, which have unlubricated metal antifriction bearings. The rotors are tolerant to impact from rounds from 20mm cannon and 12.7mm machine guns. The gearboxes are capable of running for 30 minutes up to one hour and 30 minutes without lubrication.

The helicopter is fitted with a 272kg capacity rescue hoist and an external sling. The enlarged sponsons provide additional stowage for carrying extra fuel, life rafts, floats or other equipment. The helicopter is equipped with emergency flotation gear for over-water missions.

COMBAT SEARCH AND RESCUE (CSAR)

Eurocopter's Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) helicopter is in service with the armed forces of France, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
A Personnel Locator System (PLS) is used to locate survivors, which is based on an encrypted communications homing system. This communicates with the Thales Avionique Nadir Mark 2 navigation computer, which selects the navigation mode according to the phase of the mission and controls the integrated flight display, which is presented on four flat screens.

Nadir Mark 2 interfaces to the positional and navigation equipment on the helicopter, the global positioning system, the inertial navigation, Doppler radar, the VHF omnidirectional radio range equipment (VOR), Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN), and distance measuring equipment (DME).

The Cougar is equipped with observation domes to the cabin doors, searchlight, Forward Looking Infrared sensor (FLIR) and panoramic view detection radar with homing and personnel location system functions. The crew are equipped with third-generation night-vision goggles, and the Mk2 Cougar aircraft cockpit and cabin area is night-vision goggle compatible.

In search-and-rescue missions involving pick-up from the sea, higher operating modes of the helicopter's SFIM PA 165 digital auto-pilot are used and manoeuvres in transition and hovering flight are performed automatically.

WEAPONS

The aircraft is equipped with two outboard 20mm cannons, pod-mounted rockets and two 12.7mm machine guns.

COUNTERMEASURES

The search-and-rescue helicopter is fitted with a radar warner and a missile launch warning system. The helicopter also has radar and infrared jammers and a chaff and flare decoy system.

Eurocopter and the French ONERA research centre worked in cooperation on the jet exhaust deflectors / diluters, low infrared reflectance paint and low radar reflectance surfaces and in reducing the acoustic, radar and infra-red signatures of the helicopter.

ENGINES

The Cougar is equipped with two Turbomeca Makila 1A2 engines. The engines provide a maximum continuous power of 1,240kW and are able to maintain their maximum take-off power of 1,380kW for five minutes.

Centrisep multi-purpose air intakes are provided for operations in high-dust / particulate or desert conditions.

For extreme long-range missions, the combat search and rescue helicopter can carry auxiliary fuel tanks in the cargo hook well, sponson tanks, cabin floor tanks and up to five ferry tanks. Rescue missions of 500 nautical miles and return to base are possible without in-flight refuelling. An in-flight refuelling capability is being developed by Eurocopter.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/cougar/

RBS 70 Short-Range Anti-Aircraft Missile, Sweden

The RBS 70 short-range anti-aircraft missile is operational with the Swedish armed forces and has also been exported to 13 countries worldwide, including Australia, Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Norway, Pakistan, Singapore and Tunisia.The RBS 70 system entered service in 1977 with the mk 1 missile. Current production model is the mk 2. The Bolide missile is a further development of the mk 2 with a new sustainer rocket motor, which increases missile speed and manoeuvrability. Bolide was ordered by Australia in 2003 with a follow-on order in April 2004.

In November 2004, RBS 70 was ordered by the Latvian Air Force. Deliveries are set for 2006-07.

Also in November 2004, a number of RBS 70 systems were handed over by Norway to Lithuania, free of charge. In December 2004, the Czech Republic placed an order for RBS 70 with the Bolide missile.

In January 2007, Finland placed an order for the RBS 70 missile system. Deliveries are scheduled to begin at the end of 2008.

The RBS 70 missile can be operated independently in stand-alone mode or can be configured with several firing units linked with a surveillance radar to form an anti-aircraft battery. The truck-mounted Giraffe land mobile radar developed by Ericsson (now Saab Microwave Systems) can be linked to nine RBS 70 firing posts, The firing posts, typically 4km apart, protect an area of 175km². The target data, including range, bearing and velocity is transmitted to each designated missile firing post.
RBS 70 MISSILE

The basic RBS 70 comprises the missile in a launch container, a tripod firing stand and an optical sight. It is operable by one, and portable by three persons.The missile is equipped with a solid propellant booster motor developed by Bofors and a solid propellant sustainer motor by BAE Systems Land Systems (Royal Ordnance) and Imperial Metal Industries. When the operator fires the missile, the booster motor is ignited inside the launch tube and the missile is accelerated out of the tube. The control surfaces and the four fins open into position as the missile leaves the tube. The sustainer motor ignites after the missile has travelled a safe distance from the launch position. The booster is subsequently jettisoned.RBS 70 NIGHT SIGHT

A Saab Vectronics (now FLIR Systems) close loop cooled COND (Clip-On Night Device) operating in the 8 micron to 12 micron infrared band gives the system day and night capability. COND has a 12 x 8° field of view.

Saab Bofors Dynamics has placed an order with FLIR Systems Inc for a new clip-on night sight for the RBS 70 called BORC. BORC is based on QWIP (Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector) thermal imaging technology.OPERATION

The RBS 70 has laser beam riding guidance, riding a laser signal being beamed from its own launch station, rather than being guided from the front towards the reflected signal from a laser designated target.

A hostile target can be located visually by the missile operator or the target can be detected by a search radar. When the target is acquired, the operator tracks the target and the Raytheon Cossor IFF880 friend or foe system interrogates the target. If a friendly target is detected, a warning light in the sight is illuminated and the firing sequence is halted. The operator aims the missile towards the target, fires and tracks the target, aiming a laser guidance beam continuously at the target until the moment of impact.The RBS 70 missile has a laser beam detector mounted at the back of the missile which detects the laser guidance beam. The outputs from the laser beam detectors in the tail of the missile are used by an onboard processor to generate the steering and course correction signals to the missile control fins. The missile's flight is gyroscopically stabilised.

The missile has no seeker head at the front of the missile and the laser beam riding system in the tail of the missile is extremely difficult to jam.

If the missile loses the laser beam or if no guidance signals are received after a predetermined period of time during missile flight the missile switches to self-destruct mode.

The missile is armed with a 1.1kg fragmented warhead fitted with a Saab Bofors laser proximity fuse and an impact fuse.RBS 70 MK 1+ MISSILE

The RBS 70 mk 1+ missile was developed for the Swedish Army and is fitted with an enhanced capability laser seeker with an expanded field of view. A 30% increase in the engagement envelope results from the 57° field of view (compared to 40° in the mk 1 variant). Where a crossing target is being engaged, the wider field of view allows a wider angle between the missile flight path and the laser guidance beam.
RBS 70 MK 2

The mk 2 missile has a 100% increase in area coverage compared to the mk 1. The mk 2 version incorporates a smaller digital electronic control unit, a larger sustainer motor and a heavier warhead, providing an increased speed of 590m/s and range of 7km, with improved armour penetration characteristics.

The warhead is 50% heavier and incorporates fragmentation pellets and a shaped hollow charge for armour penetration against armoured helicopter targets.

BOLIDE

The Bolide missile is a development of the RBS 70 mk 2. It has a maximum speed of more than Mach 2, faster than the RBS70 which has a speed of Mach 1.6. The Bolide missile design incorporates a number of new systems including a fibre-optic gyroscope, an adaptable proximity fuse which provides all-target capability and a high kill probability against small and dark targets, new sustainer rocket motor with an improved performance propellant and new electronics. The new sustainer rocket motor gives the missile a shorter time of flight and higher manoeuvrability than the RBS 70.

The new compact reprogrammable electronics suite installed in the missile allows the system to be easily upgraded with new software. The missile is primarily for air defence with a maximum intercept altitude at over 5,000m, but it can also be deployed against surface targets. It has a range of 250m to 8,000m.

Bamse RBS23 All-Weather Air Defence Missile, Sweden

The Saab Bofors Dynamics Bamse all-weather, all-target, air defence missile system is deployed to protect fixed and mobile assets. It can be used against a range of threats including fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft, unmanned aircraft, stand-off missiles, cruise and anti-radiation missiles and guided bombs. Bamse is effective against very small and very fast targets such as air-to-surface attack missiles. The system has all-weather capability and a target range that exceeds the stand-off distance of electro-optically controlled weapons. The system provides a target range over 15km and coverage to an altitude up to 15,000m.

Bofors (later to become Saab Bofors) and Ericsson (now Saab) Microwave Systems completed the project definition phase in 1991 and the engineering development program began in 1992. In 1993 the Swedish Government placed a contract on the then Bofors Missiles and Ericsson to carry out the full-scale development of the Bamse system.

The Bamse system has successfully completed a series of performance trials carried out by the Swedish Defence Forces, Forsvarets Materielverk (FMV, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration) and the FOA Research Institute of the Swedish National Defence (FOA).

In 2000, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration awarded Saab a production contract for the system. BAMSE entered service with the Swedish armed forces in 2005.

In September 2007, the Swedish Government cut funding for the Bamse missile in the 2008 budget, putting the programme on hold.BAMSE FIRING BATTERY

The Bamse firing battery includes a surveillance coordination centre and three missile control centres. The missile control centres are towed to position by a cross-country vehicle, which also carries a store of missiles for reloading.

The system can be deployed and prepared for firing in less than ten minutes.SURVEILLANCE CONTROL CENTRE

The surveillance control centre is installed in a truck-mounted 20ft standard container, which is armoured to provide protection against fragmentation and against nuclear, biological and chemical warfare environments.

The surveillance control centre is equipped with the Ericsson Microwave Systems Giraffe AMB (Agile Multi-Beam) 3D surveillance radar with a 12m-high mast which operates at C-band (5.40GHz to 5.90GHz).The Giraffe AMB uses a 'stacked beam' antenna arrangement, with one wide beam for transmission and multiple narrow beams for simultaneous reception. This provides a target update rate of one per second, with an elevation coverage of more than 70°. The IFF transmit and receive units are mounted on the radar antenna.

The surveillance control centre, operated by a crew of one or two, carries out real-time threat evaluation and combat coordination with target acquisition, identification, tracking and prioritisation.

The surveillance control centre automatically selects the optimum missile control centre to engage the target and hands over the target data.

One surveillance coordination centre can coordinate up to four missile control centres. The distance between the surveillance control centre and the missile control centres is typically 10km and between missile control centres, 20km.

Both the missile control centre and the surveillance coordination centre are equipped with embedded simulators allowing training and mission planning using a large library of simulation scenarios.MISSILE CONTROL CENTRE

The missile launcher with six ready-to-fire missiles is installed on the roof of the missile control centre. The centre, which is fragment-protected and Nuclear, Biological and Chemical warfare (NBC) protected, houses two computer stations and is operated by one or two crew.

The missile control centres are linked by cable or by radio data communications to the surveillance control centre. The radio data link has a maximum range of 15km. For the Swedish Armed Forces the BAMSE uses the TS 9000 tactical radio net.

The missile control centre initiates the target engagement sequence either autonomously or on receipt of a signal from the surveillance control centre.

The missile control centre is equipped with a variant of the K-band 34GHz to 35GHz Eagle fire control radar developed by Ericsson, a suite of weather sensors, an information friend or foe interrogator and a thermal imager.The sensors are mounted on a mast that can be raised to 8m in height. The elevation arm of the mast is installed between the missile launch tubes to protect the radar against obstacles while the vehicle is in transit.

The ability of the sensors to look over obstacles near the deployment site gives the missile control centre improved capability to acquire and track low flying hostile targets. After firing the launcher is reloaded in under four minutes.

The missile control centre is also used to carry out threat evaluation and engagement planning.MISSILE

The radar Command-to-Line-Of-Sight (CLOS) missile uses solid propellant booster and sustainer rocket motors which give the missile high acceleration and high maintained velocity. Nammo supplies the sustainer rocket motor and components for the booster motor. The missile has a range of more than 15km and covers altitudes to 15,000m.

The missile has high manoeuvrability, even at the outer range limit. The fragmentation and shaped charge warhead is equipped with a proximity fuse and an impact fuse.

http://www.army-technology.com/projects/bamse/

KRI Karel Satsuitubun

Van speijk class corvette KRI Karel Satsuitubun during CARAT excercise. US Coast Guards seen on backgroundKRI Karel Satsuitubun

Tontaipur

Tontaipur (abbreviation for Peleton Intai Tempur, or combat and reconnaissance platoon) is the Indonesian Army Strategic Reserve Command's newest elite unit, formed on August 4, 2001. After a five-month period of intensive training, 97 personnel were selected from the 9th and the 13th Infantry Brigades to became the first troops for this elite unit.
Tontapiur will be sent to do surveillance and reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines and destroy enemy strategic installations. Among their equipment are special assault rifles and night vision goggles (NVG). The Tontaipur can conduct operations on land, sea, and in the air.
The first test for Tontaipur was the operation to demolish the Free Aceh Movement (GAM).

"328th AB Bn"

Army Special Forces Airborne Unit - 17th Parachute Regiment
One of the best Indonesian Elite Forces

Paskhas(Indonesia airforce-special forces) New Rifles

Paskhas New Rifles SAR 21

The Indonesian Ministry of Defence and Security ordered 24 CN-235 aircraft

The Indonesian Ministry of Defence and Security ordered 24 CN-235 aircraft, including six for the Indonesian Navy maritime reconnaissance squadron and three for the Indonesian Air Force.
THALES and IPTN signed a Memorandum Of Agreement in May 2000 for the supply of three CN235 aircraft manufactured by IPTN and equipped with AMASCOS from Thales Airborne Systems, to the Indonesian Air Force. The AMASCOS Airborne Maritime Situation Control System includes the Ocean Master search radar produced by Thales and EADS Deutschland, the Elettronica ALR 733 radar warning receiver, the Chlio thermal imager developed by Thales Optronique, the Gemini navigation computer from Thales (formerly Sextant) Avionics and the AN/ASQ-508 Magnetic Anomaly Detection (MAD) system from CAE.
There are three hardpoints under each wing that can carry Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The Indonesian maritime patrol version can be fitted with two Mark 46 torpedoes or Exocet M-39 air-launch anti-ship missiles.

KRI Hasanuddin 366&KRI Diponegoro Sea Trial

Here is the picture of the newest TNI-AL sigma class corvette

Indonesian Marine Police on Patrol

Indonesian police officers during a patrol at a beach near the venue of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on 04 December 2007. Indonesia and the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) jointly host the 13th Session of Conference of Parties (COP13) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the third Session of Conference of Parties serving as a meeting of parties to Kyoto Protocol. The sessions are expected to create a roadmap of mechanism and procedure of negotiation to establish a new commitment to the Kyoto agreement, the first phase implementation of which expires in 2012.

Denjaka New Rifles

indonesia navy frogmen now using G-36 and HK-416..

Indonesia interested in Russian BMP 3F amphibious tank

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The government of Indonesia became interested in the Russian-built BMP 3F amphibious tank on display at Indo-Defence Expo 2006 at the Jakarta International Expo (JI Expo) in Kemayoran, Jakarta.

Chief delegate of Rosoboronexport General Nikolai M Dimidiuk spoke about the Indonesian interest after escorting journalists for a look of the Russian pavilion on Friday.

"Indonesia has been studying the Sukhoi jet fighter, non-nuclear submarines and BMP 3F amphibious tanks. They are priority products," Nikolai said in Russian, with Varaksin Vadin of the Russian company acting as interpreter.

On the occasion, Nikolai extensively touched on the versetility and superiority of BMP 3F amphibious tanks capable of making manuevers in the water, firing in the water, and able to move fast up-and-down steelp hills.

Another advantage is that the tank relatively not heavy and armed with 100 mm calibre and 30 mm calibre guns firing ordinary shells, guided and unguided missiles, and can stay afloat for seven hours.

"With regard to the BMP EF amphibious tanks, we offer a special service and rustproof paint, so that the vehicle remains strong even in salty waters," he said.

Nikolai also made it clear that the Russian-made BMP 3F amphibious tanks are very sophisticated, with no country able to compete, including in price.

The price of a BMP 3F amphibious tank is much lower than the prices of American, French and German tanks.