Kenapa harus ketergantungan beli barang bekas dari Belanda kalau negara yang memproduksinya sendiri juga mau jual? Yang jelas yang punya duit kuasa untuk memilih.
Ini suatu pilihan yang tepat karena MBT ini masih cukup modern (Leopard 2A6) dan merupakan salah satu MBT terbaik yang nantinya kemungkinan besar akan ditempatkan di perbatasan dengan Malaysia. MBT ini sudah masuk kategori 'combat proven' karena pernah dipakai tentara Jerman di Kosovo dan juga dipakai tentara Denmark dan Kanada di Afganistan. Banyak fihak yang meragukan keunggulan mobilitas MBT ini yang dinilai terlalu berat diatas permukaan tanah Kalimantan yang lunak, tapi setidaknya keunggulan lainnya ada pada kemampuan daya tembak meriam kaliber 120 mm di mana MBT ini mampu menyerang sasaran bergerak dalam medan yang terjal. --- In [email protected], "Sunny" <ambon@...> wrote: > > http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/07/02/army-chooses-german-tanks-over-dutch.html > Army chooses German tanks over Dutch > Bagus BT Saragih, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | National | Mon, July 02 2012, > 8:31 PM > Leopard 2: (Courtesy of Kraus-Maffei Wegman) > > The Indonesian Army has decided to procure up to 100 refurbished Leopard 2A6 > main battle tanks (MBT) worth US$280 million from Germany and ruled out > previous plan to buy similar tanks from the Netherlands, Deputy Defense > Minister Lt. Gen. (ret) Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin said on Monday. > > âWe chose Germany because we can have certainties in terms of time of > procurement and volume to meet our needs,â Sjafrie told a press conference > at his office. âWe have stopped the ongoing processes with the Netherlands > to let us focus on the procurement from Germany.â > > The government would use foreign loans for the procurement, he added. > > The Dutch government previously had issues with its parliament in the > procurement plan, mainly considering alleged rampant human rights abuses in > Indonesia. > > The first 15 MBTs are expected to arrive in Indonesia in October. The > remainders would gradually arrive until the middle of 2014, Sjafrie said. > > The Indonesian Army said it needed to modernize its weapons systems with MBTs > because it only had light tanks such as the British-made Scorpion and > French-made AMX13, which weighed 8 and 14 tons respectively. The Leopard 2A6 > MBT each weighs well over 60 tons. (nvn) > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
