- Source: Teluk Bintuni-class tank landing ship
The Teluk Bintuni class, Indonesian designation AT-117M is a class of tank landing ships that is being built indigenously for the Indonesian Navy by various Indonesian local shipyards. It was announced that the Indonesian Navy intends to acquire a total of twelve vessels of the same class with some modifications from the lead ship to improve ship's capability.
Design
Teluk Bintuni has a length of 120 metres (393 ft 8 in), a beam measuring 18 metres (59 ft 1 in), and a height of 7.8 metres (25 ft 7 in) with a draft of 3 metres (9 ft 10 in). She has a capacity of 476 passengers, including crew, alongside 10 Leopard 2 main battle tanks and a helicopter. The ship was designed to be able to stay at sea for 20 days.
With a crew of 119, consisting of 113 sailors and 6 helicopter crew, she has a displacement of 2,300 tonnes and has a maximum speed of 16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph). The ship is armed with light defensive weapons in form of a Bofors 40 mm gun and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.
The vessel could also carry four LCVP boats, and is equipped with a crane for cargo loading and offloading.
Ships
Operational history
In January 2018, during a naval landing exercise at the Berhala Strait, Teluk Bintuni received a signal from a tugboat which was being hijacked by pirates. The vessel launched an LCVP and apprehended the hijackers. She later brought supplies to areas affected by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami.
In August 2019, Teluk Lada was dispatched to rescue hostages aboard MV Mina Sejati, a 36-crew squid fishing vessel which was hijacked by several members of her own crew off Tual, Maluku. Mina Sejati was later discovered empty by Teluk Lada, with eleven survivors testifying that three of the crew had massacred the others.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Kapal Pendarat Tank kelas Teluk Bintuni
- Kapal Pendarat Tank
- KRI Teluk Wondama (527)
- KRI Teluk Weda (526)
- Daftar kapal TNI Angkatan Laut yang aktif
- Kapal Pendarat kelas Teluk Gilimanuk
- Kapal Pendarat Tank kelas Teluk Semangka
- Landing Platform Dock kelas Makassar
- Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Laut
- KRI Teluk Kupang (519)
- Teluk Bintuni-class tank landing ship
- Teluk Semangka-class tank landing ship
- Landing Ship, Tank
- Teluk Gilimanuk-class landing ship
- KRI Teluk Bintuni
- List of tank landing ships
- KRI Teluk Wondama
- KRI Teluk Palu
- KRI Teluk Weda
- KRI Teluk Calang
