‘Hodgepodge of tech’: What makes Indonesia’s naval buildup vulnerable?

Summary

Mike Yeo writing in DefenseNews, makes the following points:

• Indonesia’s neighbours are generally supportive of the plan.
• Forty current Indonesian Navy vessels face block obsolesce.
• The local state-owned shipbuilder is constructing two 6000-ton Arrowhead 140 frigates.
• Six locally built Italian 6700-tonne FREMM frigates on order, but they require foreign development loans.
• The submarine arm currently operates four diesel-electric attack submarines.

References

Recent Runway Posts related to this topic:

• SUBMARINES & AUKUS—01: COLLECTION- The Runway (airforce.gov.au)

References from the Web:

• DEC 2022 Indonesian Navy to carry out mid-life modernization of nine ships-Navy Recognition
• FEB 2023 Indonesian modernisation under threat-Australian Naval Institute

Source Information: 

• Article Source: Defense News, Covering the politics, business and technology of defense | Defense News
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