27 April 2019
Latihan penembakan rudal QW-3 di Garut (all photos : TNI AU)
Dankorpaskhas Tinjau Penembakan Rudal QW-3 di Garut
TNI AU. Bertempat di Pantai Santolo, Kecamatan Pameungpeuk, Komandan Korpaskhas Marsekal Muda TNI Eris Widodo Y, S.E., M.Tr (Han) bersama Pejabat Korpaskhas meninjau langsung kegiatan penembakan rudal QW-3. Rabu (24/4).
Penembakan rudal QW-3 tersebut merupakan salah satu materi dari latihan pemantapan satuan pertahanan udara (Hanud) Korpaskhas yang diikuti oleh perwakilan prajurit Detasemen Hanud Paskhas dan siswa kursus Hanud Satdik Hanud Pusdiklat Paskhas. Berbeda dengan latihan-latihan sebelumnya, kali ini penembakan rudal dilakukan juga pada malam hari dengan tujuan agar kesiapan para prajurit dalam melaksanakan pertempuran lebih meningkat.
Kegiatan diawali dengan proses take off target drone yang diasumsikan sebagai pesawat tempur musuh, kemudian operator radar Smart Hunter mendeteksi sinyal posisi target drone tersebut dan melaporkan kejadian tersebut ke komando atas.. Setelah dipastikan bahwa sinyal tersebut merupakan pesawat musuh, dari komando atas memerintahkan kepada satuan Hanud Korpaskhas agar menembak jatuh pesawat tersebut.
Tibalah saatnya para petembak rudal QW-3 membidik target pesawat musuh yang telah terdeteksi tadi. Setelah sasaran terkunci, maka rudal QW-3 langsung ditembakan dari darat menuju ke udara dan langsung menghantam target dengan sukses.
Pada kesempatan tersebut Dankorpaskhas menyampaikan kepada seluruh peserta latihan untuk terus mengasah kemampuannya sehingga para prajurit akan semakin menguasai alutsista yang diawakinya dan juga proses regenerasinya agar terus dipelihara.
Hadir pada kesempatan tersebut Danpusdiklat Paskhas Kolonel Pas Anis Nurwahyudi, Askomlek Korpaskhas Kolonel Lek Ade Teguh, Kalamja Korpaskhas Kolonel Pas Supomo, para Pejabat Korpaskhas dan Pusdiklat Paskhas.
(TNI AU)
27 April 2019
Vehicles from the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment embark HMAS Adelaide as part of an Amphibious Task Group at Port Adelaide, South Australia. (all photos : RAN)
HMAS Adelaide has for the first time embarked a mechanised combat team including supporting elements to conduct Sea Basing Amphibious Operations over the Joint War Fighter Series in 2019.
A mechanised Combat Team from Battle Group Boar, centred on the 7th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (7 RAR), embarked in HMAS Adelaide during the recent visit to namesake port Adelaide.
The Amphibious Warfare Officer and Head of the Amphibious Department on board Adelaide, Major Charles De-Zilva said the task was complicated by the shallow tidal window of Port of Flinders in Adelaide’s Outer Harbor, during the embarkation period.
“To overcome this constraint, HMAS Adelaide used a pontoon barge to extend the tidal window for its side doors, and a detailed rehearsal and embarkation planning were conducted by the Adelaide Amphibious Task Group and 7 RAR to ensure safe and efficient embarkation.
“For Sea Series components of Joint War Fighter Series 2019, Adelaide is the Primary Control Ship for the Amphibious Task Group. This task is another first for Adelaide as she will be controlling multiple surface connectors from both HMAS Canberra and Adelaide,” said Major De-Zilva.
Commanding Officer 7 RAR, Lieutenant Colonel Adam Gower said throughout the Joint War Fighter Series 2019, Battle Group Boar will conduct Ship to Object Manoeuvre (STOM) and use both a mechanised and Air Mobile Combat Teams from Adelaide.
“This will be the first time that the Adelaide amphibious department will conduct STOM with a mechanised Combat Team and the first time that 7 RAR have conducted Sea Basing Operations with Adelaide.
“This is a step change in the capability that 7 RAR can provide to the Australian Defence Force.
“At the end of these activities we will be able to project and sustain combat power using both air and surface ship to shore connectors,” said Lieutenant Colonel Gower.
The Amphibious Department operates and controls both the heavy and light vehicle decks, the embarked forces accommodation and the Ship to Objective Manoeuvre. The Amphibious Department on HMAS Adelaide has a variety of essential components on the ship for vehicle embarkation and disembarkation, either by ship to shore connectors or while alongside using the ships doors and vehicle ramps.
The Amphibious Department also controls all amphibious Ship to Objective Manoeuvres, by air and surface connectors.
(RAN)
26 April 2019
Kendaraan pendarat amfibi BT-3F (photo : bronetechnikamira)
Kementerian Pertahanan dilaporkan telah menandatangani pengadaan kendaraan tempur amfibi BMP-3F dan kendaraan angkut personel BT-3F untuk Korps Marinir TNI Angkatan Laut dengan Rusia. Pemerintah Indonesia akan menambah 22 unit tank BMP-3F dan membawa 21 unit BT-3F ke Indonesia.
BMP-3F tidak asing lagi bagi Marinir Indonesia karena ini adalah pengadaan ketiga kalinya. Sedangkan untuk 21 unit pengadaan tank angkut personel BT-3F merupakan yang pertama. Apa kehebatan yang ditawarkan BT-3F?
Cutaway ranratfib BT-3F (image : Vestnik)
Kendaraan angkut personel lapis baja atau armoured personnel carriers (APC) BT -3F dibangun oleh Concern Tractor Plants (KTZ) dan pada September 2016 sebuah prototipe dari kendaraan tempur amfibi ini baru diluncurkan.
Kendaraan tempur amfibi BT-3F dibangun dengan maksud untuk digunakan oleh Angkatan Darat, Angkatan Laut dan Korps Marinir Rusia. Kendaraan ini akan memberikan kemampuan manuver yang tinggi, proteksi lapis baja dan dukungan tembakan langsung untuk pasukan di darat dan di laut. Kendaraan ini dirancang untuk transportasi infanteri, amunisi, peralatan dan mesin ke medan perang.
Perkembangan kendaraan lapis baja BT-3F dimulai pada 2010. Amfibi BT-3F didasarkan pada kendaraan tempur amfibi BMP-3F marinir yang berasal dari BMP-3 IFV.
Tampak depan BT-3F (photo : yuripasholok)
IFV baru diantisipasi untuk menggantikan kendaraan lapis baja pengangkut personel amfibi MT-LB Rusia yang sudah tua.
Kendaraan tempur amfibi BT-3F didasarkan pada chassis track dan fitur lambung lapis baja. Kendaraan memiliki panjang 7m, lebar 3,3 meter dan tinggi 3 meter serta berat kotor 18,5 ton.
Kendaraan lapis baja diawaki oleh tiga awak dan dapat membawa sampai 14 tentara. Pengemudi duduk di tengah-tengah lambung, sementara kursi komandan dan asisten komandan ditempatkan di kedua sisi pengemudi.
Kru masuk dan keluar dari kendaraan melalui pintu atap. Kompartemen pasukan memiliki dua pintu samping di bagian belakang dan dua lubang keluar di bagian atap.
Kanon 7.62mm BT-3F (photo : yuripasholok)
Persenjataan
Kendaraan dilengkapi dengan stasiun senjata yang dikendalikan jarak jauh 185kg DPV-T, dipersenjatai dengan senapan mesin PKTM Kalashnikov 7.62mm x 54mm, dipasang di atap kendaraan untuk terlibat target tetap dan bergerak di darat.
Sistem senjata juga dilengkapi dengan equipped with television / infrared imaging sight dan sebuah laser rangefinder untuk reconnaissance, surveillance dan akuisi target.
Sistem ini memiliki kisaran elevasi -5 ° sampai 75 ° dan dapat berputar 360 °.
Menara dioperasikan dari jarak jauh oleh kru menggunakan unit kontrol yang terletak di dalam kendaraan. Informasi lokasi target disimpan dalam integrated ballistic computer, yang menjamin kinerja tinggi dan efisiensi menembak. Kendaran juga memiliki opsional untuk dilengkapi dengan senapan mesin berat 14.5mm.
Armor dan Kinerja
Lambung kendaraan lapis baja infanteri BT-3F menawarkan perlindungan STANAG 4569 Level 4 untuk menahan serangan armour piercing ammunition 14.5mm x 114mm.
Tiga peluncur granat asap 40mm disediakan di atas kendaraan untuk memastikan kemampuan bertahan hidup yang tinggi kru di medan perang.
Tampak belakang BT-3F (photo : yuripasholok)
Kinerja
Mesin BT-3F menggunakan mesin diesel UTD-29 dengan sistem empat langkah, injeksi langsung, liquid-cooled, multi bahan bakar. Mesin menghasilkan kekuatan 500 tenaga kuda.
Dilengkapi dengan enam roda di kedua sisi, IFV menggabungkan hidrolik peredam kejut dan sistem suspensi torsion bar yang menggunakan bar torsi individu.
Kendaraan personel lapis baja memiliki kecepatan jalan 70 km/jam dan mampu melakukan perjalanan pada kecepatan 10km/jam di dalam air. Kisaran operasional kendaraan adalah 600 km.
(Jejak Tapak)
26 April 2019
South Korean shipbuilder HHI launched the RNZN's future fleet replenishment vessel, Aotearoa, on 24 April at the company's dockyard in Ulsan. (photo : YonhapNews)
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) launched the Royal New Zealand Navy's (RNZN's) future fleet tanker/replenishment vessel at the company's dockyard in the southeastern coast al city of Ulsan on 24 April.
The 173 m-long auxiliary oiler replenishment (AOR) ship, which will be known as HMNZS Aotearoa once commissioned, was floated in the drydock at Ulsan in a ceremony attended by RNZN chief Rear Admiral David Proctor, among others.
Ordered for NZD493 million (USD323 million) in 2016 under New Zealand's Maritime Sustainment Capability (MSC) programme, the vessel was laid down in August 2018 and is expected to be delivered and commissioned in 2020 when it will replace fleet replenishment tanker Endeavour , which was decommissioned in December 2017.
(Jane's)
26 April 2019
FNSS-DEFTECH: AV-8 AENBCRV (photos : FNSS)
The Armoured Engineer Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance Vehicle (AENBCRV) version of the AV-8 Wheeled Armoured Vehicle (WAV) developed by the FNSS and DRB HICOM Defence Technologies Sdn Bhd (DEFTECH) partnership for the Malaysian Army is preparing for delivery in the first half of this year.
Passing all tests with flying colours, the AV-8 AENBCRV entered the second and final stage of the qualification process, during which its endurance was tested.
The AV-8 AENBCRV is fitted with CBRN detection equipment and systems to detect and classify of any type of chemical, biological, radioactive or nuclear agents. The vehicle can determine and classify the hazard zone and alert other military units and civilians of potential dangers, thus enabling them to take the necessary countermeasures.
Possessing a complex and modern system architecture and mission-specific equipment, the AENBCRV’s initial vehicle development processes – comprising conceptual design, detailed design, manufacturing and assembly – was carried out entirely by FNSS. The ongoing qualification tests serve to demonstrate that the vehicle fully and comprehensively meets the requirements set by the user. The first stage of these tests, involving Land Performance Tests and CBRN System Tests, has already been completed after being carried out at FNSS’ facilities in Ankara. The second stage of the tests – the Endurance Tests – were launched in Malaysia in February 2019. Following the successful completion of these tests, the acceptance and delivery of the first vehicle to the end user will take place in Malaysia in the upcoming days.
Under the project, four AENBCRV vehicles will be delivered, the first of which will be the vehicle that completed its qualification tests. The remaining three vehicles will be manufactured and delivered by FNSS by 2020.
The AV-8 AENBCRV stands out as the first 8×8 CBRN vehicle to be developed by FNSS. The components of the CBRN system, as the main mission equipment aboard the vehicle, was procured from domestic and foreign suppliers in line with the user’s preferences, and the integration solutions were applied together with the Environics company of Finland. FNSS has also conducted indigenisation works on some of the CBRN system’s subsystems, thus aiding domestic subcontractors in acquiring new competencies.
Commenting on this latest milestone reached by the company with the AV-8 WAV project, K. Nail Kurt, General Manager and CEO of FNSS, said: “The AV-8 WAV project continues to be the single largest defence system export contract signed by Turkey in the field of land systems, and it is also one of the most complex projects in its field due to the large number of vehicle configurations involved. Integrated with a wide variety of mission equipment, the AENBCRV is the one of the AV-8’s most challenging configurations to date. We have fashioned the vehicle in close contact with the user, ensuring they are supplied with the specific capabilities they need. Our vehicle is now proving itself in rigorous tests, and I believe that it will pass all of these with great success, becoming the best in its class and joining the inventory of the friendly and allied nation of Malaysia. With this vehicle, both FNSS and the Turkish defence sector have acquired very important capabilities. In the upcoming period, we are ready to meet with the best solutions any need that the Turkish Armed Forces and friendly and allied nations may have in this particular area.”
(EDR Magazine)
26 April 2019
SE Asia defence spending as percentage of GDP (photo : weforum)
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines should increase its defense spending in order for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to fully perform its mandate in securing the country’s territory, National Security Adviser Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said.
The retired general said the armed forces is always more than ready to do its job to defend its stakes in the South China Sea, but its capabilities should be beefed up.
“We just want to assure you, having come from the armed forces, that we are ready anytime but you have to capacitate us also. Otherwise, we go for other things,” he said on Wednesday at a forum on the West Philippine Sea.
The Philippines passed a law calling for the modernization of the AFP in 1995, after China’s occupation of Panganiban Reef (Mischief Reef), which is located within the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. The implementation of the 15-year plan didn’t go as planned and turned out to be a failure.
“We really haven’t got anything except from the savings of the Presidents, so who do we blame for this? Do we blame the senators or the congressmen? Or we as a nation?” Esperon said.
“It seems like we are not willing to spend for defense, but we want defense. So where do you put the Armed Forces in that arrangement? Our defense spending is about 1.1% of the GDP (gross domestic product)…China has more,” he added.
The revised modernization program is now divided into three phases: Horizon 1 ran from 2013 to 2017, Horizon 2 covers 2018 to 2022, while Horizon 3 is from 2023 to 2028.
“We are now trying to build capability. We are maintaining our presence in the Kalayaan Island Group. We have put lighthouses; we will repair the airstrip. It will be an all-weather airstrip,” he said.
The Philippines was the first of the claimants in the South China Sea to put an airstrip in the Spratlys back in the 1970s. Other claimants only followed suit.
China built its massive artificial islands only in recent years.
“If you want all these parts of the territory to be defended, don’t look at the armed forces. You look at the other officials,” Esperon said. /je
(Inquirer)
25 April 2019
UAV dalam TUDM CAP 55 program (image : Mal DoD)
KUALA LUMPUR - Angkatan Tentera Malaysia (ATM) sedang membangunkan doktrin dan konsep operasi pesawat terbang tanpa pemandu (UAV) agar pengoperasiannya dapat digunakan secara efektif dan berkesan dalam menjaga persempadanan daratan serta maritim negara.
Timbalan Menteri Pertahanan, Senator Liew Chin Tong berkata, teknologi UAV didapati efektif berdasarkan daya ketahanan yang lama, jarak pengoperasian yang jauh, selain keupayaan dan kelebihan sensornya.
“ATM setuju dan mengakui kepentingan teknologi UAV pada masa sekarang dan masa hadapan sebagai salah satu strategi peperangan, di samping dapat meningkatkan keupayaan ATM bagi memantau sempadan daratan dan maritim negara.
“Buat masa ini, ATM telah pun mempunyai keupayaan UAV di dalam perkhidmatan bagi tujuan pengawasan, serta turut bekerjasama dengan Jabatan Ukur dan Pemetaan Malaysia (JUPEM) bagi tujuan pemetaan,” katanya ketika sesi soal jawab di Dewan Negara hari ini.
Beliau menjawab soalan Senator Datuk Theodore Douglas Lind mengenai sama ada teknologi ‘drone’ akan diperkenalkan dan digunakan ATM pada masa sekarang dan masa hadapan sebagai satu strategi peperangan yang baharu supaya ATM dapat bersaing dengan angkatan tentera negara jiran.
Chin Tong berkata, teknologi UAV juga akan digunakan sebagai salah satu elemen sistem pengawasan dengan jaringan aktiviti perisikan, pengawasan, pengesanan dan peninjauan (ISTAR) dalam ‘masa sebenar’ dan diintegrasi ke dalam sistem ‘Operasi Jaringan Berpusat’ (NCO) ATM yang kini sedang dibangunkan.
“Keupayaan ini dilihat sebagai kekuatan berganda bagi memantapkan lagi sistem pemantauan daratan dan juga ruang udara negara.
“ATM juga telah lama mengadakan idea untuk mengintegrasikan teknologi dalam pelbagai bidang dalam ATM* kementerian juga mengambil kira industri 4.0 termasuklah penggunaan dan pengoperasian UAV dan kecerdasan buatan* semua ini akan diambil kira dan dilaksanakan,” katanya.
(Utusan)
