KRI Teluk Banten (516)

KRI ''Teluk Banten'' (516) is the fifth of the Indonesian Navy.

Design

The ship has a length of , a beam of , with a draught of and her displacement is at full load. She was powered by two diesel engines, with total sustained power output of distributed in two shaft. ''Teluk Banten'' has a speed of , with range of while cruising at .

''Teluk Banten'' has a capacity of 200 troops, of cargo (which includes 17 main battle tanks), and 2 LCVPs on davits. The ship has a complement of 90 personnel, including 13 officers. ''Teluk Banten'' is a command ship variant of the class and has distinguishing features such as the LCVP davits located forward of the bridge and the exhaust vents above the waterlines instead of funnels found on the other ships.

She were armed with two single Bofors 40 mm L/70 guns, two single Rheinmettal 20 mm autocannons, and two single DShK 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.

The ship has hangar facility and helicopter deck in the aft with provisions for up to 3 Eurocopter AS332 Super Puma helicopters.

Construction and commissioning

''Teluk Banten'' was built by Korea Tacoma Shipyard in Masan, ordered in June 1981. She was commissioned in May 1982.

In the 1987 ASEAN Summit, was held in the Philippines from 14 to 16 December. At that time in the Philippines there had just been a succession of President Marcos and the situation there was very precarious, as bomb explosions and threats from the dissident military haunted the president. Many parties asked to move the summit from the Philippines, but the Indonesian government firmly rejected the proposal and ensured that it was safe to go to the Philippines. To ensure that the Indonesian Armed Forces Headquarters made preparations to send a Navy fleet to the Philippines. Indonesian Navy sent 5 warships to form a Presidential Security Task Force with 2 ships anchored at Manila and 3 ships standing by offshore. The two ships that were in Manila were KRI ''Teluk Banten'' with the Puma Helicopter on her deck and the frigate KRI ''Wihelmus Zakaria Yohannes'' as escort.

In 1992, KRI ''Teluk Banten'', along with KRI ''Yos Sudarso'' and intercepted the Portuguese ship ''Lusitania Expresso'' in East Timor. Col. Widodo, deputy assistant of the Indonesian Navy's Eastern Fleet, told Radio Republik Indonesia from aboard the Indonesian warship KRI ''Yos Sudarso'' that the ferry entered Indonesian waters at 5:28 in the morning of 11 March 1992. At 6:07, ''Lusitania Expresso'' had traveled into Indonesian territory and Captain Luis Dos Santos (''Lusitania Expresso''s captain) was ordered to leave immediately. Col. Widodo said the Portuguese ship captain obeyed the order and turned his ship around and headed back to sea.

On 9 January 2005, she together with KRI ''Teluk Langsa'' was dispatched together with the US Navy Seahawk helicopter to deliver relief supplies and evacuate Indonesian citizens in Calang, Aceh Jaya Regency after a tsunami took place. Sailors from USS ''Abraham Lincoln'' also assisted the situation.http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=20393

She was involved in Operation Benteng Paus 2014 to carry out border security which includes prevention and deterrence as well as taking action against violations of the territory around the Indonesia-Australia-East Timor border.

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Ships built by Hanjin Heavy Industries
Amphibious warfare vessels of the Indonesian Navy
Teluk Semangka-class tank landing ships
1982 ships