I know you must be thinking that the vehicle escorting the military commander above is Humvee (or Hummer), a US-made military vehicle. Well, you are very wrong, dudes. The so-called jeep is named Bhirawa, a multi-purpose vehicle developed by Pupuk Kaltim, a huge company in East Kalimantan. Yes, it’s made by our Indonesian fellas. Congrats!

What do you know about NATO? NATO is undoubtedly the strongest military alliance on this planet where world’s strongest armed forces allied in the post world war II to defend themselves from the communist bloc in eastern Europe and USSR. Until this very moment, NATO still exists and becomes the sole power which has the [...]

Indonesian-made rifle The SS-1 (short for Indonesian Senapan Serbu 1, “Assault Rifle 1″) is the standard assault rifle of the Indonesian armed forces. It is based on the FNC rifle but modified in order to meet ergonomic and tropical environment needs. The SS-1 is manufactured by PT Pindad, Bandung, Indonesia. The assault rifles of the SS1 [...]

Russia and South Korea have been shortlisted for a $700 million contract to deliver two submarines to Indonesia,  passing France and Germany. Russia’s bid is the Project 636 diesel-electric submarine (export agent Rosoboronexport, picture above) while South Korea’s is the U-209 sub manufactured by Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (picture below) under German license. One of the principal [...]