With a defense budget having increased by 16% in 2020, the Indonesian armies have increased resources to modernize their equipment, in a context of growing tensions with China under the guise of territorial claims in the China Sea. Outraged air forces negotiating to acquire new combat aircraft, the Indonesian Navy is also speeding up its planning for modernizing its buildings. In this case, the Indonesian authorities announced this week that they had selected theA Thales company and the European missile MBDA to modernize the light frigate Kri Usman-Harun, one of three Bung-Tomo class units. The modernization of the other two frigates, the KRI Bung Tomo and KRI Usman Harun, will take place soon, once the necessary budget of $ 60 million has been released.
In concrete terms, the Dutch subsidiary of Thales has been awarded a contract to modernize the detection and electronic protection capabilities of the Indonesian ship, which will receive a TACTICOS combat management system, a SMART-S Mk2 surveillance radar. , a STIR EO Mk2 radar, the Vigile Mk2 electronic defense system as well as Electro-optical fire control systems. For its part, MBDA received a mandate to bring the MM40 anti-ship missiles already equipping the ship to block 3 standard, as well as the delivery of the VL MICA short-range anti-aircraft missiles to equip the 16 vertical launch silos in place on vessel.
75% of this article remains to read,
Subscribe to access it!
The Classic subscriptions provide access to
articles in their full version, and without advertising,
from 6,90 €.
Newsletter subscription
Register for the Meta-Defense Newsletter to receive the
latest fashion articles daily or weekly