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View all search resultsKRI Alugoro 405, which was assembled and completed in the country in June last year, is the third product to have been realized in the first batch of the ongoing US$1.1 billion partnership between PAL Indonesia and South Korean shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME).
In Robert Kaplan’s book, Asia’s Cauldron, I came across this particularly interesting quote: “Submarines are the new bling, everybody wants them.” At the same time, I was also doing research on Indonesia’s naval modernization program, which included submarine acquisition. Can it be that Indonesia’s submarine program is based on flimsy prestige politics rather than accurate strategic assessment?
Australia's largest-ever defense contract has gone to a French shipbuilder to produce a new generation of submarines, thrilling officials in Paris and inaugurating half a century of close defense cooperation between the nations.
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