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Indonesia Close to Signing Rafale Contract: French Media
May 19, 2021 @ 08:44 AMIndonesia could become the latest customer for the French Rafale fighters with an agreement expected to be signed soon. The contract is awaiting Indonesian presidential acceptance to route money from the Ministry of Defense account to buy the jets,
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Internal Solitary Wave May Have Caused Indonesian Submarine to Sink
May 3, 2021 @ 07:03 AMA powerful underwater current called an internal solitary wave may have caused the Indonesian Navys KRI Nanggala 402 submarine to sink on April 21. The submarine's former commander, Rear Admiral Muhammad Ali, told local media, “The natural phenomenon (internal solitary wave) occurs when different sea depths come together, creating forces that could have dragged the vessel down
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Indonesia to Send Back Engineers to South Korea for KF-X Participation
April 28, 2021 @ 06:20 PMIndonesia is likely to send back its engineers to South Korea for participation in the KF-X fighter jet project in a sign that the two countries are close to an agreement on the former re-joining the program. Indonesia has asked Seoul to help its engineers “catch up with the technological progress made while they were away back home over coronavirus concerns,” the defense ministry said Wednesday, according to
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Did a Torpedo Implosion Sink Indonesian Submarine?
April 25, 2021 @ 02:54 PMDid a torpedo implode in Indonesian submarine, KRI Nanggala 402 splitting up the 44 year old vessel into three parts and killing all of its 53 officers and crew instantly? Indonesian Navy Commander Yudo Margono said at a press conference Sunday that was broadcast on Indonesian television that SONARS had located an object that looked like a submarine at a depth of 850 m, way out of its 500 meter ‘safe diving range suggesting that a catastrophic event had taken place abroad the submarine. A video released during the press conference revealed large parts of the sunken submarine
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Missing Indonesian Submarine Detected, Debris Found
April 24, 2021 @ 07:59 AMIndonesian military chiefs said Saturday that a scan located the missing Indonesian navy submarine KRI Nanggala 402 around 850m beneath the sea. The submarine was carrying 53 crew members onboard when it lost contact during a dive off the coast of Bali on Wednesday
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Indonesia Starts Massive Hunt for 44-Year Missing Submarine as Oxygen Level Drops
April 23, 2021 @ 09:45 AMIndonesia has put its rescue aircraft and ships to scour the sea north of Bali to hunt for the 44-year old KRI Nanggala-402 submarine that went missing on Wednesday. Contact with the German-built vessel carrying 53 crew members aboard was lost when it was preparing to conduct a torpedo drill
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Indonesia, South Korea ‘Near Agreement’ on Resuming KF-X Fighter jet Partnership
April 16, 2021 @ 07:58 AMSouth Korea and Indonesia are “nearing an agreement” to resume the latters participation in Seouls KF-X fighter jet project. "After five rounds of negotiations, we are nearing an agreement to a certain extent,” a South Korean arms procurement agency official told journalists in Seoul today,
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South Korean-Indonesian Leaders’ Meet Falls Short on Breaking KF-X Jet Deadlock
April 8, 2021 @ 07:09 PMSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in held talks with Indonesia's defense minister Prabowo Subianto on Thursday ahead of an official ceremony to roll out the KF-X fighter jet tomorrow; but failed to break a deadlock over Indonesias continued participation in the KF-X project. “Moon invited Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto in person to his office amid speculation that the bilateral partnership in the KF-X project may be sputtering,” Yonhap News reported
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Indonesian Marine Combat Headquarters Coming Up in Natuna
April 8, 2021 @ 07:14 AMIndonesia has started building marine combat force headquarters in Natuna Island, scene of earlier showdowns with Vietnam and China. The headquarters of the Marine Combat Force of the First Fleet Command will be part of the Combat Operations Executive Command in western Indonesia
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Indonesian Defense Minister to Attend KF-X Roll Out in S.Korea
April 1, 2021 @ 01:28 PMIn what is seen as Indonesia's commitment of participation in South Korea's KF-X jet program, its defense minister is likely to attend the aircraft's roll-out later this month. "As far as I know, Indonesia has delivered to our government an intent that senior military officials, including Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, will attend the KF-X rollout event," a source was quoted as saying by
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