Well i dont know. If we aim for 8 submarines then we'll have it by mid or late 2020s considering by then our cakra's will be almost 40 years old.
We are still waiting for the delivery of 406, 407 and 408, we will operate 8 submarine by the end of 2024.
Post 2024 with the target of 12 submarine, we are gonna buy new submarine again for the 409, 410, 411 and 412, maybe 401 and 402 will be replaced too, thus we are gonna need 6 new submarine for post 2024.
40 yo? Taiwan still operates older sub
Indonesian navy offcourse. Why on earth i would mention other navy???
Idk, I just want to be sure.
For 60 m OPV, I think they just need a simple one, to patrol their water against illegal fishing boat etc, no need for Ashm.
For LPD it will be very useful for them, for a small country that consisted of few hundreds small island. If they got hit by natural disaster(tsunami, typhoon) it will be pretty much bad for them, it will affect the entire country. We got hit by natural disaster frequently, Lombok then later Palu, it's very bad but it doesn't affect much to our country because we have large area, when Lombok and palu got hit we still can send help from other islands like java, but for a small country in the pacific ocean it will bad if they got hit by natural disaster.
The LPD can carry heavy equipment, and vehicle(ambulans, truck), can reach isolated island using LCU or helicopter and more importantly it can serve as hospital ship so its a good investment.
For Fiji having LPD it will be useful when needed, but still I kinda surprised that a small country like Fiji want an LPD.
I believe TNI AL ready to help if something happens to Fiji, hm... somehow the Kri Semarang suddenly become hospital ship I thought it's just gonna be a standard LPD, but after Lombok and Palu suddenly it have red cross paint, no complain tho.