Turki Punya Pesawat Anti Kapal Selam Buatan PT DI, RI Malah Tak Punya

CN 235 ASW milik Angkatan Udara Turki

Jakarta - Turki ternyata memiliki salah satu pesawat canggih buatan Indonesia yakni CN235 ASW yang diciptakan untuk mendeteksi kapal selam. CN235 ASW merupakan kependekan dari Anti-Submarine Warfare.

"Turki itu punya pesawat buatan kita yang diciptakan untuk anti kapal selam," kata Vice President Corporate Communication PT Dirgantara Indonesia, Sonni Ibrahim, ketika ditemui disela acara The 12th Langkawi International Maritime & Exhibition 2013 (LIMA '13), Malaysia, Selasa (26/3/2013).

Dikatakan Sonni, pesawat tersebut memang didesain khusus untuk anti kapal selam karena memiliki dua buah torpedo.

"CN235 ASW ini memiliki sonar dan radar yang bisa mendeteksi keberadaan kapal selam musuh, ketika terdeteksi musuh di dalam laut, dari atas pesawat torpedo dijatuhkan dan dibelakang torpedo ada parutnya, setelah jatuh ke laut torpedo langsung mengejar musuh karena juga memiliki radar di dalamnya," ungkap Sonni.

Selain itu, Turki juga punya pesawat buatan PT DI jenis CN235 yang tidak memiliki torpedo.

"CN235 yang biasa juga beberapa dimiliki Turki, Malaysia juga ada, ini yang tanpa rudal, tapi kegunaanya untuk mendeteksi keberadaan musuh, CN235 ini seperti komando, menentukan target musuh dimana, berapa pasukan yang perlu dibawa, pesawat jenis apa yang digunakan untuk menyerang," jelas Sonni.

Namun sayangnya, negara seluas Indonesia dan produknya dibuat sendiri di dalam negeri, tetapi tidak ada satu pun jenis CN235 ASW yang dimiliki Indonesia. "Indonesia belum punya," tandas Sonni. (rrd/hen) Detik.com 

Turki memiliki beberapa Pesawat CN 235 buatan Pt DI Indonesia

Mengapa sampai demikian ? Barangkali ada perubahan rencana karena beberapa faktor internal maupun eksternal dari dalam PT DI sendiri maupun dari pemerintah.

Sebuah media Flightgobal Singapura memberitakan hal itu sebagai berikut terkait rencana  PT DI dalam hal pengembangan Pesawat Anti Kapal Selam tersebut  :

Indonesian Aerospace to develop CN-235 for anti-submarine role
By:   SIVA GOVINDASAMY SINGAPORE

Indonesian Aerospace (IaE) plans to develop an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) variant of the CN-235turboprop and hopes to offer the aircraft to countries in the region. 

The state-owned company's president, Budi Wuraskito, told the official Antara news agency that IaE had sent about 40 engineers to Turkey to learn how to manufacture ASW aircraft.

"We already have the technology for the production of such aircraft," he says, while not revealing where it has been acquired from. "They [the engineers] now have the experience to assemble and modify aircraft of that type." 

Turkish Aerospace Industries in late 2008 performed the first flight of a CN-235 maritime patrol aircraft equipped with a Thales Amascos mission system. The company is preparing six of the aircraft for ASW and anti-surface warfare duties with the Turkish navy under Ankara's Meltem 2 project. 

IaE manufactures the CN-235 under licence from Airbus Military, and an ASW variant could attract interest from neighbouring countries like Brunei, Malaysia and Thailand, as well as some Middle Eastern countries. 

The company has developed civilian and other military variants of the CN-235, and a military transport version is in service with countries including Indonesia, Malaysia and South Korea. 

It has also developed a maritime patrol variant that is in service with the Indonesian navy, and has also attracted interest from South Korea.Indonesia meanwhile plans to increase its defence budget by 20% in 2010 to make up for years of underfunding, says newly elected president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a former army general. 

"We will significantly increase our defence budget from 33.6 trillion rupiah ($3.3 billion) in 2009 to 40.6 trillion," Antara quotes him as saying. The aim is to increase the budget every year until it reaches 120 trillion rupiah, he adds.

@PA Photos : The remains of the Indonesian military C-130 which crashed in May

There have been calls for additional funding for the military after a series of fatal crashes involving Indonesian military aircraft over the last few months. In May, an air force Lockheed Martin C-130H crashed, killing 99 people. Another 24 died when an air force Fokker F27 crashed in April, and there have also been several recent fatal accidents involving military helicopters.