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RI Irian (201), previously named Ordzhonikidze (Russian: Орджоникидзе) was a Sverdlov-class cruiser, Soviet designation "Project 68bis", of the Soviet Navy that was acquired by Indonesian Navy in 1962.
All the Indonesia Navy (Indonesian: Tentara Nasional Indonesia-Angkatan Laut, TNI-AL) vessels are named with the prefix KRI (Kapal Perang Republik Indonesia or Naval Vessel of the Republic of Indonesia). Smaller sized boats with light armaments usually have the prefix KAL (Kapal Angkatan Laut or Naval Vessel of the Indonesian Navy). The classes ...
KRI Balikpapan (951) KRI Pangkalan Brandan KRI Wonokromo: Transferred to Indonesia in 1962. Retired. [58] Sweden: 1 KRI Tjepu (901) [note 5] Built in Sweden in 1949. Retired. Singapore: 1 KRI Pladju (902) [note 6] Bought from Singapore in 1958. Retired. Japan: 2: KRI Balikpapan (901) KRI Sambu (902) Copy of Khobi-class built by Ujima Shipyard ...
Sold to Indonesia 1962, recommissioned KRI Irian in 1963. Sold for scrap to Taiwan in 1972. British frogman Lionel Crabb disappeared in 1956 when secretly inspecting this ship for MI6 when it was docked in Portsmouth Harbor. Aleksandr Nevsky: Александр Невский: Admiralty Shipyard, Leningrad 30 May 1950 7 June 1951 31 December 1952
The naval component was made up of 100 warships and 16,000 sailors and Marines. The deployment of forces preparatory to the planned landings in West Papua forced the Dutch to return to negotiations and reached an agreement to hand over West Irian to Indonesia. After seizing West Irian, Sukarno by 1963 moved his sights on Malaysia.
Indonesia bought various kinds of military equipment, including 41 Mi-4 and nine Mi-6 helicopters, 30 MiG-15, 49 MiG-17, ten MiG-19 and 20 MiG-21 fighter jets, 12 Whiskey-class submarines, 12 Komar-class missile boats, and one ex-Soviet Navy Sverdlov-class cruiser which was renamed the KRI Irian.
On 9 November 2023 the ship began preparations for a possible deployment to aid Palestinians during the 2023 Israeli invasion and bombing of the Gaza Strip. [6]On 21 November 2023 the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Navy, Admiral Muhammad Ali, told journalists that the dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat is in the process of being repainted white.
The R.E. Martadinata class of guided-missile frigates of the Indonesian Navy are SIGMA 10514 types of the Netherlands-designed Sigma family of modular naval vessels, the frigates are each built from six modules or sections, for I Gusti Ngurah Rai, five were built at the PT PAL shipyard at Surabaya, and one of the module was built at Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding facility in Vlissingen, the ...