PT Len Indonesia untuk mengembangkan sistem misi UAV
Jon Grevatt, Bangkok - Industri Pertahanan Jane
03 Februari 2020
Kementerian Pertahanan Indonesia telah menandatangani perjanjian dengan perusahaan lokal PT Len Industri untuk mendukung produksi sistem misi untuk Elang yang dikembangkan secara mandiri di negara itu. Hitam (Black Eagle) kendaraan udara tak berawak (UAV) menengah-tinggi, daya tahan lama (MALE).
Kementerian Pertahanan mengatakan kontrak tersebut, yang ditandatangani pada 30 Januari, akan membuat PT Len Industri mengembangkan, memproduksi, dan mengintegrasikan sistem-sistem utama ke dalam UANG Elang Hitam yang mampu menyerang pada 2023.
Pekerjaan berdasarkan kesepakatan, yang nilainya tidak diungkapkan, termasuk "rekayasa desain terperinci" dari UAV; "Dokumen akuisisi teknologi" yang akan menguraikan teknologi yang dibutuhkan untuk produksi massal; “Pengujian perangkat keras dalam loop” dan pengujian; dan produksi stasiun kontrol tanah UAV.
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President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has expressed a desire to accelerate the local manufacturing of long-range military drones — the first of their kind in the country — to 2022.
The drone, technically known as an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), is to be the first medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) UAV in the country. State-owned aircraft manufacturer PT Dirgantara Indonesia (PTDI) is to manufacture the vehicle's airframe, while state-owned PT Len is to build the military equipment, such as sensors, radar and weapon systems.
Vehicles in the MALE UAV category are designed to fly at altitudes of between 3,000 and 9,000 meters for extended lengths of time.
"Our original plan was to put the drone — we named it Elang Hitam [black eagle] and it will be specifically used for military purposes — into mass production by 2024," Research and Technology Minister Bambang Brodjonegoro said at the Presidential Office in Jakarta after a Cabinet meeting on Thursday.
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“But considering the domestic demand, as well as the preparedness of its design and manufacturing process, the President had instructed that [the drone’s mass manufacturing] be moved forward to 2022.”
The drone was jointly designed by the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology, the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space and the Defense Ministry’s research agency.
Bambang added that Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto and Indonesian Military commander Air Chief Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto had expressed interest for the long-range drones, particularly for operations to secure the country’s borders.
PTDI and PT Len were to originally manufacture five Elang Hitam drones by 2022 before beginning mass production. The first five drones would be prototypes to ensure that the vehicles were in line with the market's demands, Bambang said.
The accelerated development of the drone’s prototype would mean that an investment of Rp 1.1 trillion (US$ 80.51 million) was needed, up from the Rp 800 billion based on the original development plan, the minister said.
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The documents have stopped short of providing required technical specifications, nor minimum hull numbers for the programme, but Jane's reported in December 2019 that the TNI-AL has requested at least USD340 million for an initial class of four hulls.
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Prior to its commissioning, five pilot instructors and six technicians from the TNI-AL underwent a training programme to familiarise themselves with the aircraft at Vero Beach, Florida, in the United States.
Roll Out Ceremony of Indonesia's first indigenous MALE UAV Prototype officially called Elang Hitam or Black Eagle at PT Dirgantara Indonesia facility. Credit to Antara News.
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