Indonesia: 'green water navy'

[Sandhi Yudha]

Yes most USD 450 mio already been talk by Indonesia Finance Guys to be used for:

1. Integrating Drone and Helicopter operation,
2. Upgrade systems mostly electronics but some weapon system,
3. Command fumctions.

The budget for drone and helicopter being provide seperately (seems AW 149 being choose by the navy) Ini spesifikasi AW149, helikopter incaran Kemhan untuk perkuat TNI AL but mostly for Combat Rescue operation. This shown the carrier mostly will be use as command amphibious and disaster relieve. Thus it will operate within Indonesia waters and not really for naval power projection.

For that I suspect they don't budget big for SD missile, and point defense shorad seems the best they are planning. Especially with most of the upgrade budget going for other electronics, command and flight integration systems.

There's also other rumour here that Marina Militare offer to TNI-AL some of their Aspide Missile stockpiles. The logic is because this carrier will be only maintain by Indonesian Navy up to 2040, when the plan indigenous build LHD come to operation. Thus Aspide stockpiles can still operational for a decade more.

Fincantieri also being talk facing Navantia-TAIS on offering design for LHD. The design must be set before 2030 if one can still be hope to be operational before 2040.

Looking to the budget of $450 million, and the age of the Giuseppe Garibaldi, it is indeed only enough for the overhaul of the ship and the three points you mentioned above.

I think the DARDO 40 mm twin guns will be kept, and the Aspide launchers replaced by Tetral Mistral launchers or 20 mm guns, for cost saving.

TNI-AL already has the AS565 Panther in its fleet, which is suitable for CSAR missions too, like the AW149, but is more compact and has foldable main rotors. Maybe Disnerbal needs larger helicopters for some tasks, or they can get it for a good price combined with the aircraft carrier.

 

[Ananda]

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Republikorp CEO presence in Garibaldi sent away ceremony in Italy increasing possibility that it is not PAL that Fincantieri choose as partner to upgrade Garibaldi/Gajah Mada in Indonesia yard. Previously I thought on Noahtu yard in Lampung that being choose, however potential Republik Palindo yard in Batam can also candidate. Still all this just prediction.

Maybe Disnerbal needs larger helicopters for some tasks, or they can get it for a good price combined with the aircraft carrier.

So far this shown going to be AW149. Perhaps like AS565, some will be for CSAR, some will be wired for ASW.