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The Indonesian Navy carried out the liquidation of the Fleet Patrol Ship Force and the Naval Base Maritime Security Unit. This involved the establishment of the Main Naval Base Patrol Ship Unit, as well as the creation of the Maritime Potential Staff of the Navy's Main Command and the Main Naval Base, centralized under the 1st Fleet Command.
The standard armament for the class was two 5 in (127 mm) dual purpose guns, four 40 mm and ten 20 mm anti-aircraft guns, and three 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes.It also carried two depth charge racks, eight K-gun depth charge projectors and one hedgehog projector as secondary weapons.
The Claud Jones-class destroyer escorts were four destroyer escorts built for the United States Navy in the late 1950s. These ships were a diesel-powered version of the earlier Dealey class and were designed with the aim of producing a cheaper ship suitable for rapid production in wartime.
The Edsall-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts built primarily for ocean antisubmarine escort service during World War II.The lead ship, USS Edsall, was commissioned on 10 April 1943 at Orange, Texas.
In the late 1940s, the US Navy developed a requirement for a replacement for the PC-461-class submarine chaser in the coastal convoy escort and patrol roles. The existing submarine chasers were considered too small to carry the required anti-submarine weapons and sensors, and too slow to catch modern submarines, with a ship the size of existing destroyer escorts required.
The Rudderow-class destroyer escorts were destroyer escorts launched in the United States in 1943 to 1945. Of this class, 22 were completed as destroyer escorts, and 50 were completed as Crosley-class high speed transports and were re-classified as high speed transport APDs.
The Buckley-class' main armament was three 3-inch/50-caliber guns in Mk 22 dual-purpose open mounts. They fired fixed-type ammunition (antiaircraft, armor-piercing, or star shell) and had a range of 14,600 yards (13,400 m) at 45°, and an antiaircraft ceiling of 28,000 feet (8,500 m)
In March 2024, Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defence have signed a 1.18-billion-euro contract for the supply of two Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel Light+. [8] The ships to be sold would be among those that already being built for the Italian Navy in order to accelerate delivery. [9] [10] Locally classified as frigate ...