South Korean protection firm Hanwha Protection, an affiliate of Hanwha Corp., signed a contract with Indonesia’s nationwide police final month to provide 25 armored personnel carriers by 2024. The corporate inked the take care of the Nationwide Police of the Republic of Indonesia on June 15 following a world bidding course of for the challenge to obtain the Barracuda Armored Personnel Carriers. Hanwha didn’t specify the contract worth. Below the deal, Hanwha Protection will manufacture and ship the autos. It might mark the second export of the Barracuda to Indonesia since 2004, when a contract was signed to offer a batch of 20 autos to the Indonesian Police Cellular Brigade Corps (Korps Brigade Mobil, Brimob).
The Cellular Brigade Corps is the particular operations, paramilitary, and tactical unit of the Indonesian Nationwide Police. Fashioned in late 1945 as a particular police corps named Pasukan Polisi Istimewa, below the Japanese, it was known as Tokubetsu Keisatsutai. A few of its primary duties are counter-terrorism, riot management, high-risk legislation enforcement the place the usage of firearms are current, search and rescue, hostage rescue, and bomb disposal operations. The Cellular Brigade Corps is a big element of the Indonesian Nationwide Police skilled for counter-separatist and counter-insurgency duties, typically at the side of navy operations. Every Provincial Regional Police Headquarters (Polda) in Indonesia has its personal Cellular Brigade unit.
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The Barracuda has been developed by the Hanwa Protection (beforehand Daewoo Heavy Industries & Equipment Ltd), which can be prime contractor for the full-tracked Korean Infantry Preventing Automobile and K9 Thunder 155 mm self-propelled howitzer. The automobile has been operated by South Korean forces deployed abroad, in addition to police forces in Indonesia, Iraq and Vietnam. It gives a large area for a complete of 15 crew, together with a driver and a commander, in addition to glorious using high quality. As well as, with its bullet-resistant home windows, it’s protected and but it gives a variety of view, which allows easy driving below any driving circumstances. With boarding doorways on the left and rear sides, it’s attainable to pick the boarding door in line with the battlefield scenario.
The baseline armored personnel service has a gross automobile weight of 11.7 tonnes and is powered by a DaimlerChrysler OM 924LA turbocharged diesel engine creating 218 hp, which is coupled to a DaimlerChrysler Electrical Pneumatic Shifting (EPS) transmission with eight ahead gears and 6 reverse. Run-flat inserts are commonplace and quite a few elective gear is on the market. Armament of the Barracuda relies on position however can sometimes embody a 7.62 mm or .50 (12.7 mm) roof-mounted machine gun (MG), and banks of electrically operated smoke grenade launchers. The Barracuda is nearly equivalent in look and specs to the German Rheinmetall Landsysteme TM-170 collection of 4 × 4 automobile, which have been developed within the Seventies.
