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Thursday, August 30, 2012

TNI expects stronger navy fleet by 2024

Changbogo-class (Type 209) |Defense Minister Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Wednesday that the government was expecting to procure a dozen submarines to augment Indonesia’s existing fleet by 2024.

Purnomo said that a deal to purchase three of these submarines was signed in December 2011. The submarines are being built in cooperation with South Korea.

He said that the joint-production program will transfer South Korea’s technological knowledge of submarines to Indonesia.

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