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Name | Teluk Kendari |
Namesake | Kendari Bay |
Ordered | 2012 |
Builder | PT Dok & Perkapalan Kodja Bahari (Persero), Jakarta |
Yard number | AT-1 |
Laid down | 31 July 2012 |
Launched | 26 September 2014 |
Commissioned | 7 December 2020 |
Homeport | Surabaya |
Identification | Pennant number: 518 |
Status | Active |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Teluk Bintuni-class tank landing ship |
Displacement | 2,300 tons |
Length | 117 m (383 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 16.4 m (53 ft 10 in) |
Height | 7.8 m (25 ft 7 in) |
Propulsion | 2 x 3,285 kW (4,405 hp) main engines |
Speed | 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Boats & landing craft carried |
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Capacity | 10 unit Leopard 2A4 main battle tanks or 10 unit BMP-3F IFVs and 1 PT-76 light tank |
Troops | 365 |
Complement | 109 crew and 6 helicopter crew |
Armament | 2 x Bofors 40 mm L/70 guns 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns |
Aircraft carried | 1 x Bell 412 helicopter |
KRI Teluk Kendari (518) is the first Teluk Bintuni-class tank landing ship of the Indonesian Navy.
Teluk Kendari has a length of 117 metres (383 ft 10 in), beam of 16.4 metres (53 ft 10 in) and height of 7.8 metres (25 ft 7 in) with a speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). [1] [2] She has a capacity of 478 passengers, including her crew of 109 and a helicopter crew of 6, in addition to ten Leopard main battle tanks or ten BMP-3F infantry fighting vehicles and one PT-76 amphibious tank. [3] [1] Teluk Kendari also has a helipad with hangar and capable of carrying a Bell 412 helicopter. [1]
KRI Teluk Kendari was built by an Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT Dok & Perkapalan Kodja Bahari (Persero), Jakarta. The ship was ordered in 2012, based on AT-117M design that would become the Teluk Bintuni-class ships. [4] Her building process was ceremonially begun with the first steel-cutting on 31 July 2012, [2] and she was assigned with yard number of AT-1. [5]
She was launched and officially named on 26 September 2014. [6] [7] She was planned to be the first ship in her class, [4] but due to internal problems faced by the shipbuilder, [8] her construction was delayed and the third ship of the class was completed first instead. She was transferred to the Navy and commissioned on 7 December 2020, with Sea Lieutenant Colonel Erpandrio Trio as her first commanding officer. [1] [9] She was assigned to Eastern Fleet Command, based at Surabaya. [10]
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