Puspenerbal Akan Tambah 10 Helikopter dan 3 Pesawat

26 Februari 2012

Pesawat CN-235 pesanan TNI AL per Januari 2012 (photo : Indonesia Raya)

TRIBUNJATIM.COM,SURABAYA- Program pembangunan kekuatan unsur udara untuk mengantisipasi potensi ancaman dari laut dalam tahun ini Pusat Penerbangan Angkatan Laut (Puspenerbal) TNI AL akan menambah 10 Helikopter dan tiga pesawat patroli maritim (Patmar).

KSAL Laksamana TNI Soeparno mengatakan, kebutuhan Helikopter dan Patmar tersebut adalah tuntutan mengimbangi kekuatan lawan, terutama Helikopter yang memiliki kemampuan Anti Kapal Permukaan (AKPA) dan Anti Kapal Selam (AKS).

“Ini adalah Prioritas teutama Helikopter dengan kemampuan AKS yang paling ditakuti oleh kapal selam lawan yang disinyalir sering melakukan kegiatan spionase melalui perairan teritorial maupun alur laut,” papar Soeparno usai menjadi Irup Sertijab Komandan Puspenerbal di Apron Hanggar Lanudal Juanda, Jumat (23/2/2012).

Heli Anti Kapal Selam dan Anti Kpal Permukaan akan melengkapi arsenal TNI AL (photo : ADF)

Selain Helikopter AKPA dan AKS pihaknya juga memesan jenis Helikopter angkut taktis. Untuk pesawat terbang, Puspenerbal dalam tahun ini juga akan menambah tiga pesawat Patroli Maritim (Patmar).

“Satu pesawat sudah selesai dan akan diserahkan tanggal 28 nanti,” jelasnya.

Sementara untuk pesawat lama seperti jenis pesawat Nomad, kata Soeparno jika masih bisa dirawat, pesawat tersebut tetap akan dipakai.

“Akan dipelajari lagi rencana grounded, kalau bisa dipertahankan akan dipakai,” pungkasnya.

(TribunNews)

Raytheon Wins the ALFS for Australian Navy

28 Desember 2011

Airborne Low Frequency Sonar for MH-60R ASW helicopters (photo : Raytheon)

Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Portsmouth, R.I. is being awarded an $80,830,000 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0077) to provide for the procurement of 25 MH-60R AN/AQS-22 Airborne Low Frequency Sonar (ALFS) systems for the Royal Australian Navy under the Foreign Military Sales Program.

Work will be performed in Neuilly-sur-Seine Cedex, France (68 percent), and Portsmouth, R.I. (32 percent), and is expected to be completed in October 2016. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year.

The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.

(US DoD)

11 Helikopter Seasprite untuk TNI AL Diproses Pengadaannya

01 Desember 2011

Helikopter SH2G Seasprite buatan Kaman Helicopters AS (photo : Jetphotos)

Heli Antikapal Selam Perkuat TNI AL

JAKARTA – Kekuatan alat utama sistem senjata (alutsista) TNI Angkatan Laut akan bertambah menyusul proses pengadaan 11 unit helikopter antikapal selam, antikapal permukaan, serta dua pesawat patroli laut.

Tambahan alutsista itu akan mengisi kelemahan-kelemahan yang dimiliki kapal TNI AL. Kepala Dinas Penerangan Angkatan Laut Laksamana Pertama TNI Untung Suropati mengatakan, keberadaan pesawat sayap tetap maupun sayap putar (helikopter) penting bagi TNI AL, karena mereka merupakan kepanjangan “mata” dan “telinga” dari kapal TNI AL (KRI). Wilayah laut Indonesia yang luas, menurut dia, tidak memungkinkan untuk dijangkau oleh KRI mengingat kekuatannya yang terbatas.

Karena itu, keberadaan tambahan dua unit maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) dan11 helikopter anti kapal selam Seasprite itu sangat penting untuk mengisi kekosongan yang tidak terkover kapal-kapal TNI. “Pesawat tentunya memiliki kelebihan di manuver, fleksibilitas, jangkauan yang luas, dan kemampuan deteksinya juga lebih cepat,” tegas Untung di Jakarta, kemarin. Dua unit MPA yang akan menambah kekuatan TNI AL yaitu pesawat CN-235 yang rencana sudah mulai diterima TNI AL pada 2013.

Selain radar deteksi, pesawat ini juga akan dilengkapi dengan kemampuan untuk melakukan penindakan. Adapun untuk helikopter Seasprite sejumlah satu skuadron itu, memiliki kemampuan penindakan yang lebih ampuh. Enam dari 11 helikopter dilengkapi dengan senjata antikapal selam, sisanya lima unit merupakan antikapal permukaan. “Rencananya pada 2012 pengadaannya,” ujarnya. Sekretaris Komite Kebijakan Industri Pertahanan Letjen TNI Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin mengatakan, pengadaan CN-235 untuk MPA TNI AL masuk dalam prioritas alutsista TNI.

Rencananya, biaya pengadaan menggunakan alokasi dari pinjaman luar negeri sebesar USD60 juta, namun pemesanan di PT Dirgantara Indonesia. Sjafrie yang juga wakil menteri pertahanan itu menuturkan, dalam strategi pertahanan Indonesia, saat ini memang sedang dikembangkan penguatan di kawasan Indonesia bagian timur.

(Seputar Indonesia)

2013 Delivery Planned for First Australian Romeos

28 Oktober 2011

A nearly complete MH-60R at Lockheed Martin's Owego facility. (photo : Australian Aviation)

The first two of 24 Sikorsky-Lockheed Martin MH-60R naval helicopters being acquired for the Royal Australian Navy under Air 9000 Phase 8 could be delivered as early as December 2013, according to Lockheed Martin.

Under Air 9000 Phase 8 the RAN requires delivery of its first MH-60R ‘Romeos’ from mid 2014, but Australia has requested early delivery of some of the aircraft. Consequently, under current planning the first two MH-60Rs will be delivered in December 2013, followed by seven in 2014, seven in 2015, and the last eight in 2016, according to George Barton, director of naval helicopter programs at Lockheed Martin’s MS2 business.

Lockheed Martin is hopeful an acquisition contract for the Australian Romeos will be signed by the end of this year, while a through life support contract will be signed in 2013. The acquisition contract will also incorporate a commitment that Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky place work with Australian industry under their respective Global Supply Chain agreements with the Australian government (Lockheed Martin signed its GSC with the Australian government last January, Sikorsky is expected to sign a GSC around the time of the Romeo acquisition contract). Then Australian Industry Capability work packages will be negotiated over a three month timeframe once the acquisition contract is signed.

“We’ve got an awful lot of work to do this year with regard to the Australian Air 9000 [Phase 8] program,” Barton told Australian journalists on October 27. “We just completed a through life support survey at Nowra, and we spent two weeks over there going through the facilities, a site survey meeting with the DMO reps fleshing out the details of exactly what they are going to want. We have a meeting here in November to discuss some of the development options, and then in December there is a scheduled program review with the US Navy and Australia. So a lot of work is going to be ongoing between the two teams and industry will be supporting those.”

Meanwhile, production of the Romeo at Sikorsky’s Stratford, Connecticut, and Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York plants, is continuing apace, with aircraft currently being delivered to the US Navy at a rate of approximately three per month. The 100th Romeo for the US Navy was delivered mid this year, while a new multiyear contract to take production for the US Navy through to 2018 is expected to be signed in the December-January timeframe. The helicopter is also currently being marketed to Denmark, South Korea and Qatar.

(Australian Aviation)

Northrop Grumman to Supply AQS-24A Airborne Mine-Hunting System to Japan

26 Oktober 2011

Northrop Grumman AQS-24A (all photos : Northrop Grumman)

ANNAPOLIS, Md., -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been competitively selected to supply the AQS-24A airborne mine-hunting system to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.

Under the initial contract, Northrop Grumman's Undersea Systems business unit will deliver the airborne mine-hunting system to Kawasaki Heavy Industries for integration into Japan's new Airborne Mine Countermeasures MCH-101 helicopter.

AQS-24A Common Post Mission Analysis Station

"The combination of our proven high performance, low cost and ease of integration in the MCH-101 airframe makes the AQS-24A the ideal choice for Japan's helicopter-based mine-hunting needs," said Tom Jones, vice president of Northrop Grumman's Undersea Systems business unit. "As the only operational airborne mine-hunting search system in the U.S. Navy, the AQS-24A has demonstrated very high reliability in the field with the Navy's Helicopter Mine Countermeasures squadrons."

AQS-24A Minehunting System

The AQS-24A and its predecessors, the AQS-24 and the AQS-14, have been the only operational airborne mine hunting search systems used by the U.S. Navy for the past 27 years. The AQS-24A is a high speed mine-hunting system that is primarily towed from the MH-53E helicopter, but has been easily adapted to the smaller Japanese MCH-101 aircraft. With a track record of proven reliability and performance across the globe, the system's high-resolution side-scan sonar detects, localizes and classifies both bottom and moored mines in real time at high area coverage rates.

AQS-24A Deployment

The AQS-24A contains a laser line scanner that provides precision optical identification of underwater mines and other objects of interest. The AQS-24A allows for simultaneous operation of the sonar and laser, which significantly improves area coverage rate, shortens the mine clearance timeline and alleviates unnecessary maintenance cycles. Advanced navigation controls and processing provide highly accurate target positioning.

(Northrop Grumman)

TNI-AL Pertimbangkan Tawaran Helikopter Antikapal Selam AS

14 Oktober 2011

Kaman SH-2G Seasprite (photo : Philip B Hosking)

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - TNI Angkatan Laut mempertimbangkan tawaran helikopter antikapal selam SH-2G Supersprite dari perusahaan maritim Amerika Serikat untuk memperkuat armada tempurnya.

"Kami tertarik sekali dengan arsenal tersebut, karena sangat mendukung untuk memperkuat daya tempur dan daya tangkal. Tetapi kami akan pertimbangkan matang-matang," kata juru bicara TNI Angkatan Laut Laksamana Pertama TNI Untung Suropati ketika dikonfirmasi ANTARA di Jakarta, Jumat.

Paparan tentang helikopter antikapal selam itu disampaikan Direktur Pemasaran dan Pengembangan Bisnis Kaman Helicopters Company Mark Tattershall dan Manajer Pengembangan Bisnis Kaman Aerospace Company Stephen D Rutter kepada Kepala Staf Angkatan Laut Laksamana TNI Soeparno.

Untung menambahkan, keberadaan arsenal baru sangat diperlukan armada udara TNI Angkatan Laut untuk memantau dan mengawasi wilayah perairan nasional yang sangat luas.

"Karenanya, keberadaan helikopter antikapal selam itu sangat menarik untuk mendukung kegiatan patroli maritim, daya tangkal dan daya tempur," katanya menegaskan.

Selama ini patroli maritim TNI Angkatan Laut masih menggunakan pesawat udara Nomad dan Cassa yang usianya relatif sudah uzur.

Kekuatan udara Dinas Penerbangan TNI Angkatan Laut saat ini terdiri atas pesawat sayap putar (helikopter) dari jenis NBell 412, NBO-105 dan NAS Super Puma, Colibri, serta pesawat sayap tetap untuk keperluan transportasi dan patroli maritim berupa NC-212 dan Nomad. (T.R018/Z002)

(Antara)