Indonesian Sub Contract Includes
Plan to Build One Unit in Country
By AMI INTERNATIONAL INC.
South Korea’s Daewoo Ship- building Marine and Engineering (DSME) has won a $1.1 billion contract for the construction of
three Type 209 submarines for the
Indonesian Navy. DSME bested
French, German, Turkish and Russian competitors for the program.
One of the keys to the win,
according to industry sources, was
technology transfer agreements that
will allow Indonesia to develop its
submarine-building capabilities at
PAL Shipbuilding in Surabaya. The
first two units will be built at DSME
operations in South Korea, with
assistance from Indonesian shipbuilding industry personnel.
Indonesia expects to supply up to
30 personnel to DSME for construction of the first unit and 130 for the
second unit, with the intent of
acquiring enough experience to build
the third unit at PAL Shipbuilding
with South Korean assistance.
The first two units are scheduled to be delivered to the Indonesian Navy in 2015 and 2016,
respectively. The third Indonesian-built unit is targeted for a 2017
delivery, although delays are
expected since this will be the first
attempt to build a submarine in
country.
Construction of the third Type
209 will give Indonesia experience
to build additional units if it
desired or move forward with
other submarine designs, as well as
allow the Navy to better maintain
its submarine force in the future
without outside assistance.
United Arab Emirates
Orders THAAD Systems
Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed
Martin Co. has received a $1.96 bil-
lion Foreign Military Sale contract
for the production and delivery of
two Terminal High Altitude Area
Defense (THAAD) missile defense
systems for the Missile Defense
Agency of the United Arab Emirates.
U.S. NAVY
Indonesia has ordered three Type 209 submarines from South Korea’s
Daewoo Shipbuilding Marine and Engineering. The first two boats will be built
in South Korea, the third is set to be built in Indonesia. The South Korean Type
209 submarine Lee Sunsin is shown here arriving at Naval Station Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii, for the 2008 Rim of the Pacific Exercise.
Royal Thai Navy
Orders SeaFox Drones
The Royal Thai Navy has signed an
agreement with Atlas Elektronik
GmbH, Bremen, Germany, for the
purchase of three SeaFox mine-neutralization drones. The SeaFox
system comprises two units,
SeaFox I and SeaFox C. The
reusable SeaFox I is used to identify the sea mine, while the expendable SeaFox C, with its integrated
warhead, serves as ammunition for
mine neutralization.
Atlas will supply three mobile
SeaFox systems with the corresponding number of SeaFox I units
for inspection and training purposes and an initially small number of
SeaFox C combat units for mine
disposal. The agreement also calls
for an unspecified number of
SeaFox C units to be delivered during the next few years. Financial
terms were not disclosed
