PT DI Signs Contract for EC255/EC725 Cougar

27 Januari 2010

EC-725 Cougar (photo : Eurocopter)

Cooperation Between PTDI and Eurocopter

PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) and Eurocopter Directors celebrated today in Bandung the beginning of Airframe assembly for EC725/EC225 Helicopters, the latest version of the ?Super Puma? family. This milestone highlights the excellent project coordination and relationship between the two teams. The first fuselage is expected to be delivered at the end of 2011.

Through this cooperation PTDI will produce Tail Boom and Fuselage for EC725/EC225 Helicopters until 2020. The production phase will start with the production of tail boom, in January 2010 and will be continued with the production of fuselage in May 2010. The first Tail Boom is expected to be delivered in October 2010, while the first Fuselage is intended to be delivered in November 2011. 6 Tail Boom units will be delivered in 2011, followed by 10 units in 2012 and then 12 units per year (one unit per month) during the remaining years until 2020.

Eurocopter chose PTDI as the main Supplier in the world for the airframe component on this family of helicopters. The work package will absorb no less than 50% of domestic share value from the manufacturing of elementary parts in more than 4000 parts and assembly of major component, in more than 500 sub-assemblies.

Eurocopter is assisting PTDI during the early stage of the cooperation (non recurring-phase) in the following areas: product planning and tooling; qualification of special processes, jigs and production facilities; certification of key production staff ; procurement planning and supply-chain management. The assistance will enhance DI capabilities to produce airframe for the most advanced transport helicopters.

PTDI signed a cooperation agreement on Airframe production with Eurocopter in the end of 2008. The cooperation is a continuation of long history of cooperation between PTDI & Eurocopter which began in 1978, when PTDI (former IPTN) began assemble SA-330 ?Puma? Helicopter, then continued in 1981 with the production of airframe for AS-332 ?Super Puma? MK I.

(Indonesian Aerospace)

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PTDI Pemasok Komponen Helikopter Produksi Eropa

27 Januari 2010

EC-225 civil version (photo : Eurocopter)

Bandung, (ANTARA) - PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) akan menjadi pemasok utama komponen Airframe Helikopter EC-725 dan EC-225 yang merupakan produk mutakhir dari Eurocopter.

"Helikopter EC-725 dan EC-225 merupakan pengembangan dari versi NAS-332 atau Super Puma. Pengembangannya tidak boleh mengubah sistem dan daya angkut helikopter itu," kata Vice President Airframe Eurocopter, Andreas Stoeckle di sela-sela peresmian pembuatan Airframe Heli EC-725 dan EC-225 di Hanggar PTDI Kota Bandung, Rabu.

PTDI berperan sebagai pemasok komponen tailboom (ekor) dan fuseluge (kabin) untuk helikopter terbaru dari Eurocopter itu.

Tahapan produksi oleh PTDI dimulai dengan pembuatan ekor yang dimulai pada Januari 2010 dilanjutkan dengan kabin mulai Mei 2010.

Ditargetkan ekor pertama harus diserahkan ke pabrikan Eurocopter pada Oktober 2010 sedangkkan produksi kabinnya harus diserahkan PTDI pada November 2011.

Ia menyebutkan, pada tahun kedua atau Oktober 2011, PTDI harus menyerahkan 6 unit ekor atau 1 unit setiap dua bulan.

Kemudian tahun ke-3, Oktober 2012 PTDI harus menyerahkan 10 unit ekor dan penyerahan berikutnya 12 unit per tahun atau satu unit setiap bulan selama empat tahun dan seterusnya.

Airframe, kata Andreas merupakan struktur utama pesawat terbang baik pesawat bersayap tetap maupun helikopter.

Dengan pembuatan dan penyerahan 125 unit komponen airframe, ekor dan kabin untuk Helikopter EC-725/ EC-225, perusahaan dirgantara internasional asal Eropa itu menjadikan PTDI sebagai pemasok utama komponen airframe berkelas dunia.

"Paket ini bernilai lebih dari 50 persen dalam pembuatan 4.000 bagian dasar serta 500 pekerjaan sub-assembly untuk merakit komponen utama," kata Andreas Stoeckle.

Sementara itu, Dirut PTDI Budi Santoso menargetkan perusahaan dirgantara nasional itu untuk menjadi pemasok utama komponen bagi perusahaan-perusahaan dirgantara dunia.

"Kepercayaan dunia terhadap PTDI terus meningkat, dan ke depan PTDI siap jadi pemasok utama komponen pesawat-pesawat terbang di dunia," kata Budi Santoso menambahkan.

Budi menyebutkan, pesawat EC-725 dan EC-225 akan menggantikan helikopter Super Puma yang diharapkan bisa digunakan juga di Indonesia.

"Tiga Super Puma terakhir dibuat PTDI, dan ditargetkan tuntas pada 2010 ini dan bisa diserahkan ke Hankam sebagai pemesan," kata Dirut PTDI itu menambahkan.

(Antara)

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Nikolay Filchenkov

The Project 1171 Tapir Large Landing Ship (Bol'shoy Desatnyy Korabl' BDK) is a beachable, general-purpose LST-type design with bow and stern ramps for unloading vehicles. Produced in at least four different types beginning in 1966, there are numerous variations in detail between units. Many have been retired, and remaining units may be in reserve, given the Russian Navy's decreased emphasis on amphibious operations.

Large Landing Ship "Nikolay Filchenkov" was built by Yantar Zavod, Kaliningrad. Laid down 30 Jan 1974, completed 29 March 1975, commissioned on 12 Dec 1975.









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Pakistan to Receive Shadow 200 UAVs

The United States plans to provide Pakistan 12 units of RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles to support their fight on extremists. In addition to the drones themselves, the United States also will provide training and other capabilities required to coordinate the unmanned platforms with the Pakistani forces supporting operations against Taliban extremists along the NorthWest Frontier and border with Afghanistan.

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India-based intellectuals, be they civilians dabbling in strategic affairs or even serving or retired armed services chiefs, have repeatedly demonstrated a remarkable consistency in making ludicrous and largely discredited claims about Pakistan?s military-industrial capabilities that seemingly tend to give the Pakistan Armed Forces a debilitating force projection superiority over their Indian counterparts. The latest such accusation to have surfaced concerns the alleged efforts by the Pakistan Navy to modify its ship-launched Boeing-built RGM-84A and submarine-launched UGM-84A Harpoon anti-ship cruise missiles (of 1984 vintage) into ship-launched 50nm-range dual-role anti-ship strike and land attack precision-guided missiles. True or false? Can such modifications be done covertly without any involvement by the guided-missile?s OEM?

The best and most convincing answer comes from none other than the OEM itself?Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, which had by the mid-1990s successfully modified the Harpoon into precision-guided land attack missile called SLAM-ER (standoff land attack missile-extended range), and had also developed the related Harpoon Shipboard Command Launch Control System and the AWW-14 data-link pod (this being for the air-launched variant of the SLAM-ER). The above slides clearly demonstrate what exactly were the modifications carried out by Boeing IDS on the basic Harpoon, and how this missile has since evolved into the SLAM-ER (which is now being offered to the Indian Air Force along with both the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and F-16IN Super Viper medium multi-role combat aircraft). Taking the cue from the SLAM-ER, both MBDA and Israel Military Industries (IMI) have adopted the same optronics-based precision-guidance approach for their SCALP and Delilah air-/ship-/submarine-launched standoff land attack missiles (as has the Pakistan Air Force with the Ra?ad air-launched land attack cruise missile).

Consequently, it emerges from the above that for any Pakistani military-industrial entity to modify the Harpoon into a LACM, it would not only have to radically redesign the missile?s nose section, but will also have to develop a passive optronic sensor and integrate it with the missile?s inertial navigation system, develop a new Shipboard Command Launch Control System, and develop the airborne data-link pod so that the LACM can be provided with over-the-horizon targetting (OTHT) cues at its terminal cruise phase. Which means, while the LACM will have to be launched from a warship lurking dangerously close to a hostile coastline, a defenceless manned airborne platform (either fixed-wing or rotary-winged) too will have to be in the warship?s immediate vicinity for providing OTHT cues.

Given such daunting R & D challenges, wouldn?t it be much easier for Pakistan to acquire and deploy ground-/air-/ship-launched LACMs like the Babur and Ra?ad, both of which not only have much longer engagement envelopes, but also heavier warheads for guaranteeing assured target destruction? And if at all it is so easy to modify or even reverse-engineer anti-ship cruise missiles of 1980s vintage, then can someone explain why the DRDO?s labs (like the DRDL, GTRE, IRDE and DARE) have still been unable to reverse-engineer the decommissioned BAE Systems-built Sea Eagle anti-ship cruise missiles (whose performance parameters closely resembled those of the Harpoon A) that have now been decommissioned and are available for total strip-down and cloning? Why has the DRDO been unable to re-engineer the Sea Eagle into an unmanned high-speed target drone capable of subjecting the Indian Navy's Barak-1 and Kashtan-M close-in anti-missile defence systems to some pretty realistic threat simulation environments of the kind expected to be faced in wartime? Why does this operational requirement (for the drones) remain unfulfilled till this day? India?s civilian and military decision-makers?it thus seems?can bark galore but cannot bite.?Prasun K. Sengupta

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CAMP BLANDING, Fla. — At least 19 members of the Florida Army National Guard were injured when the bus they were riding in overturned in north Florida.A National Guard spokesman says 30 soldiers from the 690th Military Police Company, based in Crystal River, were on the bus when it crashed Tuesday afternoon. One soldier was taken by helicopter to a Gainesville hospital, while others were treated at the scene or at local hospitals.A preliminary report by military officials says four buses were moving from one area of Camp Blanding to another when the soldier driving the second bus swerved to avoid a collision with the lead bus and overturned.The Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the crash and will determine whether charges should be filed.

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PT DI Kembangkan Kendaraan Amfibi Hovercraft

1 Februari 2010



Hovercraft rancangan PT. DI (photo : Defense Studies)



Bandung, CyberNews. Tak hanya fokus pada pengerjaan dan pembuatan komponen pesawat terbang, PT Dirgantara Indonesia (DI) juga mulai fokus menggarap varian kendaraan multiguna. Sekitar dua tahun, BUMN strategis itu tekun mewujudkan hovercraft, sebuah kendaraan amfibi yang dinilai dibutuhkan di Indonesia berdasarkan karakteristiknya.



Kebutuhan akan kendaraan multiguna itu seolah semakin bermakna ketika hovercraft milik Amerika Serikat menembus langsung dari laut dengan membawa sejumlah alat berat dan kebutuhan logistik di Pantai Meulaboh saat Tsunami Aceh terjadi pada lima tahun lalu.



Kejadian itu pula yang tampaknya mengilhami kelahiran hovercraft buatan dalam negeri tersebut. Ini pun diakui oleh Jubir PT DI, Rakhendi Triyatna. Menurut dia, satu unit prototype sudah diselesaikan.



"Saat ini, kami tengah mengerjakan dua unit pesanan TNI AD," jelasnya di Bandung, Senin (2/1).

Dijelaskan Rakhendi, rancang bangun dan penguasaan teknologinya tidak terlepas dari kemampuan ahli dan karyawan PT DI. Dimensi hovercraft buatan pabrik pesawat terbang plat merah itu mempunyai panjang 22 meter dengan lebar 11 meter. Tinggi struktur secara keseluruhan mencapai 5,7 meter.



Mock-up hovercraft PT. DI (photo : Suara Merdeka)



Kendaraan yang dinamakan Landing Hovercraft Utility (LHU) IHOV-20 TM itu mampu mengeluarkan lesatan hingga 40 knots. Dalam beroperasi, hovercraft dari perusahaan yang berpusat di Bandung itu bisa pula digeber selama 5,2 jam. Untuk itu, asupan bahan bakarnya mencapai 313 liter per jam. Mesin yang menunjangnya adalah 2 X Marine Diesel Engine 1.550 HP.



Kendaraan di luar bisnis utama PT DI itu bisa mengangkut beban hingga 20 ton. Itu artinya IHOV-20 TM sanggup dimuati alat berat semacam backhoe 15 ton bagi penanganan bencana misalnya, apalagi di kawasan kepulauan.



Untuk menunjang pertempuran sebagai bagian dari alutsista, hovercraft juga siap diandalkan. Bidang muat di bagian tengah hovercraft mampu memarkirkan satu unit Tank AM atau Tank Scorpion 90. Jika pun tidak, bidang itu terbuka bagi pemuatan satu unit truk dan juga dua kendaraan taktis. Seratus pasukan siap pula diangkut kendaraan segala medan itu.



Menurut Rakhendi, pihaknya melepas LHU itu seharga 5 Juta US Dollar. Diharapkan inovasi itu bisa menjawab kebutuhan pasar tak hanya sebatas kepentingan militer. Pasalnya, hovercraft memang dihadirkan untuk menjawab kondisi medan di Tanah Air.



(Suara Merdeka)

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