25 April 2016
Harris Battlespace Communication System (photo : Harris)
BRISBANE, Australia — Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) has been named the preferred tenderer for an integrated battlespace communication system for the Australian Defence Force.
Harris was selected by the Commonwealth of Australia for the Land 2072 Phase 3 program, which is a critical part of the Australian Army's Networked Digitisation Plan. The plan will modernize the Australian Army's communications network - enhancing operational tempo and command and control.
Under the program, Harris will provide an integrated tactical communications network for voice and data services to tactical forces over line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight applications. The solution will include tactical radios and other systems and technology from Harris and other partner companies.
"This agreement reinforces Harris' status as a trusted partner and continues our long-standing commitment to providing the Australian Defence Force with secure communications and networking solutions," said Alan Callaghan, president and managing director, Harris Defence Australia. "Harris is proud to be part of such a pivotal program and to support the Australian Army's continued modernization efforts."
Harris Defence Australia is headquartered in Brisbane and also has primary offices in Canberra, Perth and Melbourne, Australia. Harris has served government and commercial customers throughout Australia for more than 25 years. The company has about 150 employees at six locations and provides products, systems and services in tactical and managed satellite communications and systems integration.
(Harris)
25 April 2016
Rafale fighter jet (photo : defense update)
According to Reuters, Vietnam has already carried out preliminary negotiations with the Swedish group Saab and Dassault of France to purchase at least 12 fighters.
In the news release dated 04/22/2016, Reuters (UK), said that because the Chinese increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea, to the South East Asian countries will speed up efforts replacement of the outdated fighters and paves the way for multi-billion dollar transactions for corporations benefit large weapons production.
According to Reuters, although defense budgets of countries in Southeast Asia is quite tight, but they are extremely "busy shopping" after a period of 5 years of lull. Reliable sources from the defense industry and close to the government said that in the coming months may witness a multi-billion dollar transactions from Malaysia and Vietnam.
At arms exhibition to be held in Kuala Lumpur this week will attract many buyers and arms suppliers such as Russia, France, Britain, China, Pakistan and the United States. This event is held every two years, the participants are expected to "noisy" than ever.
Malaysia is planning to replace the fighter MiG-29, after years of delays. Kuala Lumpur can order up to 18 jets, a deal potentially worth over $ 2.5 billion, a reliable source from the defense industry told Reuters.
Gripen fighter jet (photo : Gripen)
Other options include fighter aircraft, such as the Saab Gripen, Eurofighter Typhoon, Russia's Sukhoi Su-30 and JF-17's Chinese joint venture -Pakistan. The French side is quite optimistic about the ability to win contracts for aircraft Rafales, but other contractors also have their hopes.
"We're hoping to give Malaysian 9 Typhoon aircraft," said John Brosnan, head of conglomerate BAE Systemscho said.
Malaysian Defense Ministry did not give any comment on the talks.
Reuters adds Vietnam, can also choose a new supplier instead of the traditional partner Russia to Vietnam will be one of the next customer's weapons manufacturing corporations Western weapons .
Several unnamed sources said, Vietnam has carried out preliminary negotiations with the Swedish group Saab and Dassault of France to plan the procurement of at least 12 fighters. This information leaks from officials in the defense industry and a separate source familiar with the negotiations in the government said.
Sources from the defense industry, said Vietnam is negotiating with Moscow to equip several Su-35 fighters. Meanwhile the group's official arms exporter Rosoboronexport refused to comment on any negotiations with Vietnam.
Vietnam officials rarely comment on the issue of armament procurement, and gives no comment on the question of Reuters.
(Infonet)
25 April 2016
Galangan kapal Yunani berpengalaman memodifiksi kapal selam kelas selam HS Okeanos dari jenis Type 209/1200 menjadi Type 209/1400 AIP (photo : reddit)
Indonesia dan Yunani Jajaki Kerjasama Pertahanan
Jakarta, DMC – Pemerintah Indonesia bersama pemerintah Yunani berkeinginan untuk menjajaki kerjasama di bidang pertahanan, khususnya kerjasama antara Angkatan Laut kedua negara. Penjajakan kerjasama tersebut di bahas dalam pertemuan antara Menteri Pertahanan, Ryamizard Ryacudu dengan Duta Besar Yunani untuk Indonesia Georgios Dogoritis, Jumat (22/4) di Kantor Kemhan, Jakarta.
Dubes Yunani mengatakan sebagai negara kepulauan yang memiliki hampir 2000 pulau dan hal itu sama dengan Indonesia, Pemerintah Yunani berkeinginan untuk melaksanakan kerjasama di bidang maritim dan kerjasama Angkatan Laut kedua negara. Kerjasama Angkatan Laut tersebut merupakan modalitas untuk melakukan kerjasama pertahanan antara Indonesia dengan Yunani.
Ditambahkan Dubes Georgios Dogoritis, keadaan alamiah Yunani sebagai negara yang kuat di potensi lautnya, terdapat satu pulau yang dijadikan tempat latihan Angkatan Laut milik Pakta Pertahanan Atlantik Utara atau North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Di pulau ini bukan hanya prajurit NATO yang berlatih melainkan prajurit Angkatan Laut yang berasal dari berbagai negara di seluruh dunia.
Selain memiliki kekuatan Angkatan Laut yang besar Dubes Georgios Dogoritis juga mengungkapkan Yunani juga memiliki perusahaan atau galangan kapal yang salah satunya berkemampuan membangun kapal selam dan tank kapal.
Untuk membicarakan lebih lanjut sektor-sektor yang menjadi potensi kerjasama, pada kesempatan tersebut Dubes Yunani mengundang Menhan RI berkunjung ke Yunani.
“Saya yakin bahwa Indonesia dengan Yunani memiliki beberapa kepentingan yang sama sebagai dasar untuk melaksanakan penjajakan kemungkinan kerjasama di sektor Pertahanan, baik kerjasama Angkatan Laut ataupun kerjasama lainnya seperti pertukaran perwira dan latihan bersama.” ungkap Dubes Georgios Dogoritis.
Sementara itu Menhan Ryamizard Ryacudu mengatakan pada prinsipnya Indonesia akan menjalin persahabatan dengan negara mana pun. Berdasarkan Undang-Undang Indonesia harus ikut berpartisipasi untuk menjaga perdamaian dunia. Oleh karena itu hingga saat ini Indonesia memiliki persahabatan dengan banyak negara di dunia.
Meski demikian menurut Menhan, di Indonesia masih terdapat beberapa ancaman yang menjadi perhatian bagi pemerintah Indonesia yaitu potensi aksi terorisme, bencana alam, dan Narkoba.
Untuk itu Indonesia menjalin persahabatan dan akan mengadakan kerjasama dengan negara lain yang mengarah kepada potensi ancaman-ancaman tersebut. Ditambahkan Menhan RI, Indonesia sebagai negara maritim merasa perlu untuk mengamankan laut dari ancaman-ancaman perompakan dan pemberontakan. Menurut Menhan RI untuk menjaga kedaulatan Indonesia yang luas dengan laut, maka Angkatan Laut juga harus kuat dan besar.
Sehubungan dengan penjajakan kerjasama pertahanan dengan pemerintah Yunani, Menhan RI merespon baik. Menhan RI mengharapkan kepada Dubes bisa berkunjung ke beberapa Industri pertahanan yang ada di Indonesia dan mencari potensi di beberapa sektor yang dijadikan modal untuk kerjasama pertahanan bagi kedua negara.
(Kemhan)
23 April 2016
VN Gepard class frigate (photo : thanhniennews)
Russia will supply two Gepard 3.9 (Project 11661) frigates to the People's Army of Vietnam Navy (PAVN) in the third quarter of 2016, Renat Mistakhov, Director General of the Zelenodolsk Shipyard, told IHS Jane's at the Defence Services Asia (DSA) 2016 exhibition.
"Both ships, in anti-submarine warfare variants, will be launched in April and May 2016. Then we will start the basin trials," Mistakhov said, adding, "The ships will be supplied to Vietnam in the third quarter of 2016." He pointed out, that the propulsion systems of both frigates have already been mounted and related electrical work has been completed.
(Jane's)
23 April 2016
HMAS Parramatta (FFH 154) docked at BAE’s Henderson shipyard. HMAS Parramatta has completed its anti-ship missile defence upgrade (photo: BAE Systems)
The Royal Australian Navy's (RAN's) ANZAC-class frigate HMAS Parramatta has completed its anti-ship missile defence (ASMD) upgrade.
Fifth-in-class Parramatta undocked at BAE Systems' Henderson shipyard in Western Australia on 19 April. The frigate will now undergo three months of harbour and sea trials before rejoining the fleet.
The ASMD upgrade, implemented under Project SEA 1448 Phase 2, includes the installation and integration of the CEAFAR/CEAMOUNT active phased array radar (PAR) suite developed by Australian company CEA Technologies; the upgrade of the Saab Systems 9LV 453 combat management system to Mk 3E standard; installation and integration of a Sagem Vampir NG infrared search-and-track system (IRST); and major changes to the layout of the operations room.
Replacing the legacy Sea Giraffe G-band Target Indication Radar, the six-face CEAFAR S-band radar provides surface, volume, and air surveillance; missile detection and classification; fire-control tracking; kill assessment; surface gunfire support; helicopter support; and small surface target detection and classification. The associated X-band CEAMOUNT phased array illuminator, which is slaved to CEAFAR, features four fixed arrays producing electronically steered beams to provide both rear reference signals and target illumination to support multiple simultaneous RIM-162 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) engagements.
The full performance of the upgraded combat system has been realised by the introduction of Interrupted Continuous Wave Illumination (ICWI) missile guidance. Unlike Home-All-the-Way guidance, which requires the target to be illuminated continuously, ICWI exploits the ability of the PAR system to transmit a series of discrete illumination pulses that can be rapidly switched among multiple targets, providing the necessary homing energy to guide several missiles to their individually assigned targets. The ESSM missiles themselves receive mid-course guidance updates via an X-band uplink (no target illumination being required during the boost or mid-course phases).
(Jane's)
23 April 2016
US spy blimp (photo : the hill)
US giving Philippines reconnaissance airship to monitor West Philippine Sea
The United States government is providing the Philippines with military aid worth USD42 million to boost the country’s maritime surveillance capabilities in face of West Philippine Sea dispute.
“We will add to its capability to put sensors on ships and put an aerostat blimp (non-rigid airship) in the air to see into the maritime space,” US Ambassador to the Philippines Philip Goldberg said in an interview with CNN Philippines.
The said military aid was first announced by United States Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in New York at the Council on Foreign Relations April 8 before starting his Asia-Pacific trip that included travel to Philippines.
Last year the US government announced its five-year Maritime Security Initiative, a commitment to help partner nations like Philippines address common challenges. The initiative has a total budget of US$425-million.
“We’ve just released the first tranche of this money, nearly 80 percent of which is going to the Philippines. There it will help modernize the technology and train staff at the Philippines National Coast Watch Center, enhance an information network to enable the sharing of classified communications between U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii and key Philippines maritime command centers, provide an aerostat reconnaissance platform (airship), and outfit Philippine navy patrol vessels with better sensors so they can see and do more in the region’s waters,” Carter said.
(Update)
23 April 2016
Beberapa tipe Fuze produksi Junghanz Defence (all photos : Junghans Defence)
Perkuat Alutsista RI, Pindad Gandeng Perusahaan Jerman
Liputan6.com, Jakarta - Badan Usaha Milik Negara (BUMN) yang bergerak di sektor industri pertahanan dan keamanan, PT Pindad (Persero), menyepakati nota kesepahaman di bidang sistem fuze munisi dengan perusahaan supplier fuze asal Jerman, Junghans Defence.
Kesepakatan sinergi sistem fuze munisi antara lain pada produk alutsista seperti mortar, artileri, tank, roket, dan amunisi angkatan laut.
“Pindad dan Junghans Defence telah sepakat melakukan sinergi di bidang solusi sistem fuze untuk mortar, artileri, tank, roket, dan amunisi angkatan laut yang akan dimulai tahun ini dengan investasi awal US$ 5 juta dan di masa depan bisa mencapai US$ 20 juta,” tutur Direktur Utama Pindad Silmy Karim di Jakarta, Jumat (22/4/2016).
Silmy Karim menyatakan, penandatanganan nota kesepahaman menjadi salah satu bentuk komitmen Pindad untuk melakukan ekspansi pemasaran ke luar Indonesia.
Silmy mengaku beberapa tahapan kerja sama awal telah direncanakan bersama dengan Junghans Defence. Mulai dari persiapan alih teknologi mekanikal mortar fuze, menyiapkan lini produksi dan perakitan di Pindad, serta pemberian hak ekspor dan pemasaran kepada Pindad dengan fokus pasar di luar Indonesia, khususnya wilayah Asia Pasifik.
Fuze merupakan suatu perangkat yang menginisiasi proses peledakan pada munisi dalam suatu kondisi tertentu. Pada pengadaan fuze ini, Pindad menghabiskan biaya yang cukup besar.
Dia mengatakan hal ini menunjukkan pentingnya kemampuan untuk dapat memproduksi fuze secara mandiri. Alhasil, kemampuan industri pertahanan dan keamanan dalam negeri meningkat dan total devisa yang dikeluarkan negara untuk pengadaan fuze pun dapat dihemat.
“Dalam setahun, Pindad mengeluarkan biaya sekitar US$ 4 juta untuk pengadaan fuze. Kerja sama ini diharapkan tidak hanya mendukung Pindad untuk meningkatkan kemampuan industri pertahanan dan keamanan, tetapi juga dapat menghemat devisa yang dikeluarkan negara,” terang Silmy.
Melalui kegiatan tersebut, Pindad menambah daftar panjang kerja samanya dengan perusahaan asal Jerman.
Sebelumnya, perusahaan pelat merah yang berkantor pusat di Bandung ini telah menjalin kesepakatan kerja sama dengan beberapa perusahaan besar dunia asal Jerman, antara lain Daimler AG, MAN Diesel & Turbo, dan Rheinmetall Landsysteme GmbH.
Menjalin kerja sama strategis dengan banyak perusahaan dunia dikatakan merupakan salah satu komitmen Pindad untuk mencapai visi perusahaan menjadi perusahaan alutsist a terkemuka di Asia pada tahun 2023.
(Liputan6)
