Bitung, North Sulawesi (ANTARA News) – Indonesian warship KRI Makassar-590 has left for Mindanao, the Philippines with 2,000 tons of rice for the victims of typhoon Bopha that swept through the southern Philippine area on December 4, 2012. Speaking after dispatching the ship from Bitung port on Friday, North Sulawesi Governor Sinyo H Sarudajang…
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SHANGHAI – Indonesia enhances the cooperation on joint exercise with China as an effort to expand military and defense cooperation between both countries. The cooperation not only on officer exchange form but also on joint military excercise. “Indonesia and China have conducted joint exercise between Indonesian Army and Chinese Special Forces,” Vice Minister of…
No one was hurt when the periscope on USS Jacksonville (SSN 699), a Los Angeles-class submarine, struck a vessel while operating in the Arabian Gulf Jan. 10 at approximately 5 a.m. local time. Jacksonville surfaced from periscope depth to ascertain if there was any damage to the unidentified vessel. The vessel continued on a…
The new P-63 Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) vessel featuring Wärtsilä 50DF dual-fuel engines, the first such ship to utilize gas engines to produce more than 100 MWe of power, has successfully completed all the required full 100% load tests. The tests were carried out at the Cosco shipyard in Dalian, China and…