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Indonesian navy conducts first helicopter landing on USN LCS
Ridzwan Rahmat, Singapore - IHS Jane's Navy International
18 August 2015
An Indonesian Navy BO-105 helicopter conducts landing operations on board USS Fort Worth during Exercise 'CARAT' 2015. Source: US Navy
The Indonesian Navy (Tentara Nasional Indonesia - Angkatan Laut, or TNI-AL) has landed a naval helicopter on board a US Navy (USN) Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) for the first time.
In a move underscoring the LCS's growing levels of interoperability with Southeast Asian navies, the landing of the BO-105 naval helicopter took place on board USS
Fort Worth (LCS 3) as part of the 'Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training' ('CARAT') Indonesia 2015 exercise that took place on the ground in Surabaya and in the waters and airspace of the Java and Bali seas, a USN public affairs officer with the navy's Task Force 73 told
IHS Jane's on 18 August.
"The successful landing of a BO-105 helicopter signals a greater level of interoperability between
Fort Worth and the Indonesian Navy", said Lieutenant Arlo Abrahamson.
'CARAT' is a series of bilateral naval exercises involving the USN and the armed forces of nine partner countries in South and Southeast Asia. The Indonesian phase of the 2015 exercise ran from 3-10 August and included amphibious landing operations, surface and anti-submarine warfare drills, mobile dive and salvage training, and maritime patrol and reconnaissance operations.
Alongside
Fort Worth , other USN assets participating in 'CARAT' Indonesia 2015 included the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS
Preble (DDG 88), the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship (LSD) USS
Germantown (LSD 42), the Safeguard-class rescue and salvage ship USNS
Safeguard (T-ARS 50), and a P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft.
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