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Indo Defence 2018: Delivering the goods (Insight)

31st October 2018 - 12:00 GMT | by Helen Haxell in London

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Six years after placing an order for eight Boeing AH-64E Apaches in September 2012, the Indonesian Army received its final aircraft this year.

The first three rotorcraft arrived aboard a USAF C-17A Globemaster III transport aircraft at Semerang Air Base in Java on 18 December 2017. The remaining five aircraft were delivered on 29 March.

The AH-64Es will be operated by 11 Squadron, which is expected to deploy a detachment of four Apaches to the Natuna Islands once they are fully operational.

In January, Indonesia’s military received five helicopters – two Airbus Helicopters AS565 MBe Panthers and three armed H125M Fennecs – plus a CN-235-220 aircraft from PT Dirgantara Indonesia

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