Tempo Interactive, Wednesday, 16 December, 2009 | 16:33 WIB
TEMPO Interactive, Surabaya:To improve its fighting capability, the Indonesian Navy will send the Nanggala Submarine 402 to South Korea for repairs and additional weaponry.
“We sent the Nanggala Submarine on Tuesday for an overhaul,” said Eastern Armada Information Office chief, Lt. Col. Marine Toni Syaiful in his press release on Wednesday (16/12).
According to Toni, the Nanggala is the second submarine to be repaired in South Korea after the Cakra-401 battleship.
The Nanggala is a 209/1300-type submarine that is widely used by the navy worldwide. In Indonesia, the 1981 West Germany-made submarine was used for joint practices with the United States in 2002 and 2004.
The Nanggala Submarine was also used for a joint maritime operation in the Indian Ocean in 2004, when it managed to sink the ex-Rakata Ship.
The Nanggala submarine is the Indonesian Navy’s major battleship in its armada. It is equipped with a low-speed, Siemens’ electrical ship generator without a gear that is able to distribute direct power through a shaft to the submarine’s propellers. The total power distributed is 5000 horse power shaft.
ROHMAN TAUFIQ
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