The Teluk Bintuni class, Indonesian designation AT-117M is a class of tank landing ships that is being built indigenously for the Indonesian Navy by various Indonesian local shipyards. It was announced that the Indonesian Navy intends to acquire a total of twelve vessels of the same class with some modifications from the lead ship to improve ship's capability.

Design

Teluk Bintuni has a length of , a beam measuring , and a height of with a draft of . She has a capacity of 476 passengers, including crew, alongside 10 Leopard 2 main battle tanks and a helicopter. The ship was designed to be able to stay at sea for 20 days.

With a crew of 119, consisting of 113 sailors and 6 helicopter crew, she has a displacement of 2,300 tonnes and has a maximum speed of . The ship is armed with light defensive weapons in form of a Bofors 40 mm gun and two 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.

The vessel could also carry four LCVP boats, and is equipped with a crane for cargo loading and offloading.

Ships

NameHull no.BuilderLaid downLaunchedCommissionedStatus120M variant with hangar520PT Daya Radar Utama18 June 201327 September 201417 June 2015Active117M variant without hangar518PT Dok & Perkapalan Kodja Bahari (Persero)31 July 201226 September 20147 December 2020Active51931 July 201217 January 20177 December 2020Active521PT Daya Radar Utama20 April 201628 June 201826 February 2019Active526PT Bandar Abadi Shipyard19 December 201927 February 202126 October 2021Active52719 December 201927 February 202126 October 2021Active117M variant with hangar522PT Daya Radar Utama10 July 201715 May 201912 July 2021Active 52310 July 20171 June 20199 March 2022Active52410 July 201719 August 20198 August 2022Active

Operational history In January 2018, during a naval landing exercise at the Berhala Strait, Teluk Bintuni received a signal from a tugboat which was being hijacked by pirates. The vessel launched an LCVP and apprehended the hijackers. She later brought supplies to areas affected by the 2018 Sulawesi earthquake and tsunami.

In August 2019, Teluk Lada was dispatched to rescue hostages aboard MV Mina Sejati, a 36-crew squid fishing vessel which was hijacked by several members of her own crew off Tual, Maluku. Mina Sejati was later discovered empty by Teluk Lada, with eleven survivors testifying that three of the crew had massacred the others.

See also Equivalent landing ships of the same era Type 072A (Batch 2)

Damen LST 100

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