The KRI Nanggala-402 took part in the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training joint exercise with the US Navy in 2002 in the Java Sea and Bali Strait, and in a joint Indonesian military exercise in the Indian Ocean in 2004. Alex Widojo/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The missing Indonesian submarine has been found. The submarine was retrofitted in South Korea in 2009 with a new diesel engine, can travel up to 21.5 knots and is armed with 14 torpedoes. An KRI Nanggala-402 submarine owned by Indonesia, the same model as the one that went missing on Wednesday. The country's defense ministry said in a statement that the navy from several other countries, including Singapore, Australia and India, have offered assistance following the Indonesian navy’s international submarine distress call. The navy’s chief said a search party had recovered fragments from the KRI Nanggala 402 including items from inside the vessel, whose oxygen reserves were already believed to have run out. JAKARTA, April 25 (Reuters) - A missing Indonesian submarine has been found, broken into at least three parts, at the bottom of the Bali Sea, army and navy officials said on Sunday, as the.
“With the oil spill spotted near its dive location, there could have been a leak from its fuel tank due to the seawater pressure,” Widjojono said. An Indonesian submarine that went missing off the coast of Bali has sunk, the country’s navy said Saturday, dashing hopes that its 53 crew would be saved.
The submarine, produced by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, had been in service with the Indonesian navy since 1981. That would have resulted in it becoming uncontrollable and its crew unable to propel it to the surface. “At 7 a.m., a helicopter spotted an oil spill near the submarine’s dive location,” Widjojono said.Įarlier, he said that it was a critical time for rescue as a submarine can be without contact from its base for a maximum of three hours.īased on preliminary assessments, Widjojono said the submarine could have dived 600-700 meters deep - the vessel’s maximum submergence is 250 meters - following a blackout during a static dive. The navy deployed a search party involving a number of ships and used a side-scan sonar but failed to locate the vessel, one of five submarines operated by Indonesia. local time to conduct a torpedo-firing exercise, First Admiral Julius Widjojono told Arab News. The German-made submarine, KRI Nanggala-402, lost contact 60 miles north off the island of Bali soon after it was cleared to dive at 4 a.m. Indonesia, the world’s largest archipelago nation with more than 17,000 islands, has faced growing challenges to its maritime claims in recent years, including numerous incidents involving Chinese vessels near the Natuna islands.JAKARTA: Indonesia’s navy has intensified its search for a submarine that went missing with 53 people on board on Wednesday, after an oil spill was detected where the vessel dived, a navy spokesman said. Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN) The wreckage of an Indonesian Navy submarine missing since Wednesday has been found on the sea floor and all its 53 crew are confirmed dead, Indonesia military commander. "Submarines last fewer years in tropical waters due to the warmer water, and Indonesia doesn't have a great track record of caring for its ships," he said. (Firdia Lisnawati/The Associated Press) The oxygen supply for the 53 crew members of an Indonesian submarine missing in waters off Bali is believed to have run out early Saturday with no sign of. Zachary Abuza, professor of Southeast Asia studies at the Washington-based National War College, told the South China Morning Post that the warm waters around Indonesia can take its toll on the nation's sub fleet.
The missing submarine was last refurbished in 2012. It had been used by more than a dozen navies over the past five decades, including those from Argentina, Greece, India and Turkey.Īsian news organizations cited analysts who say that the nearly half-century-old sub underscores the dangers of Indonesia’s decrepit military equipment.Ĭollin Koh, a research fellow at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore, told the South China Morning Post that the submarine went missing in "no small part (because of) aging military hardware, though submarine accidents can also be attributed to human factors – errors in operating the boat, or even erroneous maintenance work done on the boat while moored alongside."
It was a vintage Cakra-class vessel built by the former West Germany during the Cold War. It was built in 1977 by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, a German company. The KRI Nanggala 402 sub was one of five operated by the Indonesian navy.
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