The Indonesian military has signed a contract to buy anti-aircraft and surface-to-surface ballistic missiles from the Turkish company Roketsan.
These contacts were made at the recent Indian Defense Expo and Forum in Jakarta. The Czech company Excalibur, which had a contract with the Indonesian Ministry of Defense, was the main contractor for Roketsan’s subcontractors. Under the terms of the agreement, Indonesia is purchasing the KHAN surface-to-surface ballistic missile system and the HISAR air defense missile system.
The Khan is an export version of Turkey’s BORA-1 missile. It is usually mounted on a truck using an 8 X 8 chassis with a multi-tube launcher. The missile has a maximum range of 280 kilometers and its GPS + GLONAS assisted inertial guidance provides an accuracy of 10 meters CEP. Its high mobility better ensures its ability to remain undetected. This sale represents the first foreign use of BORA/KHAN which entered service with the Turkish Army in 2017.
HISAR is a family of mobile anti-aircraft missiles that can be mounted on a range of platforms, including tactical trucks or tracked vehicles. There is a low-altitude version of HISAR-A with an intercept range of 10-15 km and a medium-altitude version of HISAR-O with an intercept range of 25 km. Both have inertial navigation and imaging infrared seekers and one-way data links. Dual-stage rocket motors are used with thrust vectoring for high maneuverability. The latest HISAT-A+ can engage targets at altitudes up to 8,000 meters, while the HISAR-O can reach 15,000 meters.
HISAR-A has been equipped with Aselsan MAR radar and electro-optical enhanced sight. HISAR-O uses Aselsan Kalkan phased array 3D radar. A typical company consists of search radar vehicle, command post/fire control center, electro-optical tracking vehicle, communication/data link and 3 to 4 missile launch vehicles.
The Turkish Army deploys HISAR on its FNSS ACV-30 tracked vehicle, which integrates 4-6 vertically launched missile containers, overhead search/track radar and electro-optical sights.
Details of the Indonesian configuration or program schedule have not been made public, but reports say the Indonesian system is named “Trisula-O,” suggesting the configuration may be based on the HISAR-O, which entered full production in 2019. 2021 or HISAR-O+ with RF seeker successfully tested in early 2022. The HISAR launcher is understood to be compatible with each of these missiles.
Stephen W. Miller
