ADECS 2019: Indonesia orders more fast attack craft
The Indonesian Navy (TNI-AL) has ordered four additional KCR-60M fast attack craft, with these to be built by PT PAL. This will rise the number of these vessels to eight in the navy.
The order that was signed on 28 December is worth IDR2,800 trillion ($195 million), and delivery of the first craft by PT PAL’s Surabaya shipyard will occur in 2021.
The vessels will be fitted for but not with weapons, sensors and countermeasures. Separate contracts for this equipment should materialise at a later date.
While the class was originally conceived as a strike craft fitted with anti-ship missiles,
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