Kekuatan Pertahanan Indonesia Terus Meningkat

Jakarta     : Selama sepuluh tahun terakhir kekuatan pertahanan nasional terus meningkat seiring dengan sejumlah program yang dilaksanakan oleh pemerintah termasuk penambahan dan modernisasi alat utama sistem senjata.

Anggaran pertahanan dari Rp21,42 triliun pada 2004 meningkat menjadi Rp84,47 triliun pada 2013 atau meningkat 400 persen, demikian data dari buku "Satu Dasawarsa Membangun untuk Kesejahteraan Rakyat" diterbitkan oleh Sekretariat Kabinet yang diterima Antara di Jakarta, Rabu.

Pemerintah secara bertahap, dengan anggaran yang tersedia, menambah dan memodernisasi alat utama sistem senjata seperti pengadaan peluru kendali komposit Grom untuk merian 23 mm milik TNI AD dan juga melengkapi senjata untuk Sukhoi-27 SK dan Sukhoi 30 MK pada 2004.

Hingga tahun-tahun berikutnya peningkatan jumlah dan jenis persenjataan terus dilakukan termasuk pembelian pesawat Super Tucano dan juga pengadaan Korvet kelas Sigma dan Tank Amphibi.

Indonesia Akan Dirikan Fasilitas Design Kapal Perang

Surabaya  : Indonesia akan segera mendirikan fasilitas desain kapal perang di Surabaya. Lokasinya sangat mungkin akan bertempat di salah satu perguruan tinggi negeri di kota yang menjadi basis utama kekuatan laut Indonesia. 

Tujuan dari pendirian fasilitas itu adalah untuk menjadi pusat desain kapal perang bagi Indonesia, apapun jenis kapal perang itu. Pusat desain tersebut nantinya akan menyerahkan hasil desain kepada galangan kapal yang diserahi oleh pemerintah untuk membangun suatu kelas kapal perang.

Eksistensi pusat desain kapal perang memang suatu keharusan bagi Indonesia. Selama ini desain kapal perang sepenuhnya diserahkan kepada produsen kapal perang berdasarkan spesifikasi teknis yang ditetapkan oleh pengguna akhir. Namun demikian, ada hal yang harus diperhatikan dengan pembangunan fasilitas tersebut.

Dutch fighter jets intercept 2 Russian bombers in their airspace

(CNN) -- Dutch fighter jets scrambled Wednesday to intercept a pair of Russian military aircraft that entered their airspace, a fairly routine action that comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and NATO, a Dutch official said.
Maj. Wilko Ter Horst said that the military learned around 3:50 p.m. (9:50 a.m. ET) that two Russian TU-95 bombers, known as Bears, had come a half-mile inside its airspace.

A pair of Dutch F-16 military jets were then dispatched to escort the Russian planes and "ensure they (flew) out of our airspace," said Ter Horst, a Dutch military spokesman.

Such a sequence of events isn't uncommon, with the Netherlands military spokesman explaining "this is a national procedure when aircraft infringe (on) national Dutch airspace." He estimated Dutch fighter jets scramble to check out unknown aircraft -- be they from Russia or another country -- about four or five times a year.

"It is not unusual," Ter Horst added. "Sometimes they cross Dutch airspace and sometimes they stay north of Dutch airspace (in the country's so-called area of responsibility)."

In this case, British military aircraft took over from the Dutch in escorting the Russian planes. A British Defense Ministry spokesman said that planes from his military left from Royal Air Force station Leuchars "to determine the identity of unknown aircraft that approached the NATO Air Policing Area north of Scotland and could not be identified by other means."

New photos of the Su-30M2 and Su-30Cm

Presented new pictures multipurpose fighters Su-30, which, in the state defense order were delivered to the troops at the end of last year. 

Tupolev PAK-DA Strategic Bomber

Tupolev have completed the design of Russia's PAK-DA next-generation bomber aircraft, according to the head of United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), Mikhail Pogosyan.

Pogosyan made the remarks during a briefing with the Russian aerospace press, according to individuals familiar with the presentation who briefed IHS Jane's on the details. He is understood to have confirmed that the "on-paper" design of the PAK-DA has now been completed by the Tupolev design bureau.

The PAK-DA project will now transition into an intermediate phase between the completion of the aircraft's design and prototype construction, with the beginning of fabrication of some of the component modules for the aircraft.

Despite speculation about whether the PAK-DA will be of a flying-wing design, Pogosyan declined to discuss details of the aircraft's configuration. UAC, which holds the contract for the PAK-DA programme, has overall responsibility for the design of the new bomber. However, the programme is being developed by UAC's new subsidiary formed by the merger of the Tupolev design bureau and the KAPO production plant in Kazan.

Meanwhile, the Sukhoi T-50 PAK-FA fifth-generation fighter continues to add more flight test aircraft to the programme, with five prototypes now undergoing validation flights. One more prototype will be delivered for the flight test schedule in 2014 and then two more in 2015. In 2016 the programme is scheduled to begin a low rate of deliveries to operational units, but this is still open to change due to a lack of any concrete facilities within the Russian Air Force (VVS) for the testing of some of the aircraft's performance parameters.

Because of the phased introduction into service and the number of improvements being planned beyond the original configuration the T-50 is probably headed for a very long service life. Projections are, said Pogosyan, that it would be in service well after 2050.

Pogosyan is also understood to have confirmed that the slow pace of the introduction of the T-50 PAK-FA fighter means that the Sukhoi Su-35S 'Flanker-E' will be the backbone of the VVS for the foreseeable future. Pogosyan envisages that as a result, the Su-35S, and later derivatives, will remain in production for at least another decade for the VVS. Of the 48 Su-35S aircraft on order, 12 have been delivered so far, with a further 12 planned in 2014 and 14 in 2015. As a result, several additional Su-35S batches are expected to be procured to replace Su-27 and Su-30 models that are being retired, as PAK-FA aircraft will not be able to replace these older models on a one-for-one basis.

He also reiterated a previous position that there was no immediate Russian requirement for a lightweight fighter to replace the MiG-29 'Fulcrum'. For now the Mikoyan design team will focus on advanced derivatives of the MiG-35, but that a single-engine fighter requirement potentially exists "somewhere in the future".

The other future, but undecided, requirement is for a new attack aircraft programme. These options run the gambit from an advanced Su-25 to an attack variant of the Yakovlev Yak-130, or even a "clean-sheet" design for a new attack aircraft, Pogosyan stated. Whatever ends up being developed, however, will be a programme that only moves into full-scale development after the PAK-DA project is in production.
http://www.janes.com/article/36539/r...-bomber-design

Heavy Armoured B1 "Centaur" (Italy).

B1 «Centaur" (Italian Centauro) - Italian heavy armored, often classified as a tank destroyer. Created concern Iveco FIAT Oto Melara commissioned Army of Italy on the role of intelligence machine capable also to fight with the enemy armor. Serial production of "Centaur" was carried out from 1991 to 2006, only 484 cars were produced of this type, some of which, in addition to Italy, was exported to Spain. 



In addition to the armored car, on a common basis with him was created infantry fighting vehicle "Frecce" composed by the army of Italy, as well as an armored personnel carrier, not released for the prototype stage. 


History of creation 
In 1984, the command of the Italian Army formulated requirements for highly mobile wheeled tank destroyers armed with 105-mm rifled gun ballistics similar guns tanks "Leopard" -1 and M60A1. Sighting System tools had to be unified with the fire control systems perspective of main battle tank "Ariete" and tracked BMP VCC-80. Terms of reference were produced in the context of program re-ground forces. Heavy armored car was given the role of main battle tanks. 

Work on "Wheel tank" began firms OTO Melara and Fiat in late 1984 and based on the experience of creation in 1982-1983. Fiat 6636 armored car 6x6. Installing the tower with a 105 mm gun increased the weight of the car by at least 6.7 m, so we had to add a fourth three axes to machine throughput has not deteriorated. Choice of dimensions was conditioned car intractable compromise between the need for greater internal volume of the housing to accommodate turret turrets and the constraints imposed by the size of the cargo hold military transport aircraft C-130 "Hercules.

RBU-6000 : Peluncur Roket Anti Kapal Selam Korvet Parchim TNI AL

Meski saat ini kekuatan armada kapal selam TNI AL terbatas, karena secara faktual kini hanya ada 2 kapal selam type 209 buatan Jerman, tapi disisi lain perlu disyukuri bahwa TNI AL masih cukup mumpuni untuk menggelar sista (sistem senjata) anti kapal selam. Keberadaan sista anti kapal selam mutlak bagi TNI AL sebagai pengawal wilayah lautan RI yang begitu luas, dimana banyak alur laut yang ideal menjadi perlintasan kapal selam negara lain di sepanjang gugusan kepulauan Nusantara.
Dalam misi ‘mengganyang’ kapal selam lawan, setidaknya TNI AL kini bisa mengandalkan banyak senjata, sebut saja mulai dari torpedo SUT (surface and underwater target) yang menjadi andalan kapal selam type 209 dan FPB-57 , lalu torpedo MK46/MK44/MK32 yang banyak digunakan pada frigat dan korvet, kemudian ada bom laut (depth charge), dan terakhir sistem senjata roket anti kapal selam. Kesemua model senjata anti kapal selam diatas masih digelar oleh TNI AL, kecuali model bom laut yang kini agak jarang digunakan lagi.

sudah lumrah bila kapal perang rancangan Rusia dan negara-negara Blok Timur mengusung dua pucuk peluncur RBU-6000

Indonesia interested in Russian submarine "Amur-1650"

Indonesian Navy Command interested Russian diesel-electric submarines of the "Amur-1650". On this, as reported by ITAR-TASS news agency, said the director of "Rosoboronexport" roving Nicholas Dimidyuk. According to him, the Indonesian delegation announced its interest during the inspection of the Russian exposition at the international exhibition DSA-2014 in Malaysia. 

Do you plan to Indonesian military to begin negotiations for the purchase of ships, is not specified. Earlier, the Ministry of Defence of Indonesia led negotiations with Russia on the purchase of second-hand submarines of Project 877 "Halibut". These ships Russia has offered the Indonesian military in August 2013. Later Indonesia declared its refusal to purchase submarines as military did not satisfy their technical condition. 

Oto Melara DART/STRALES 76mm guided ammunition successfully tested

The first lot of DART/STRALES 76mm guided ammunition, produced by OTO Melara, was successfully tested at the end of March. The firing trials were conducted on board one of the Italian Navy’s ships equipped with Strales 76mm SR and Selex NA25 fire control system.

The firing trials were conducted with quick bursts of fire against fast, manoeuvring and non-manoeuvring, radio controlled targets at low and very low altitude and at a range of more than 5000 metres.

The customers who attended the firing trials, which included the cooperation of other Navy’s air-sea craft, were fully satisfied with the trials’results which confirm the quality, reliability and effectiveness of this revolutionary defence system.