On October 30, 2024, the Turkish shipyard Sefine Shipyard in Altynova on the Asian coast of the Marmara Sea hosted the ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction for the Indonesian Navy of the lead of two ordered small corvettes of the FACM-70 project (Indonesian designation of the KCR-70M project). The Indonesian Ministry of Defense previously signed an undisclosed contract for the construction of two ships of the FACM-70 project with the consortium of Turkish shipyards TAIS, which includes Sefine Shipyard.
A render image of two small corvettes of the FACM-70 project (KCR-70M), ordered by the Indonesian Navy to the Turkish shipbuilding consortium TAIS (c) TAIS
The FACM-70 project was jointly developed by Sefine Shipyard with other enterprises of the TAIS consortium. According to official data, the ship should have a displacement (apparently standard) of 850 tons, a length of 70 m, a width of 11.8 m and a draft of 2.85 m. The main power plant is a combined diesel-gas turbine according to the CODAG scheme with one afterburner gas turbine and two diesel engines, with operation for three water cannons. The full speed is "more than 40" knots, the economic speed is 20 knots, the cruising range is 1600 miles, the autonomy is 7 days. The crew is 43 people.
Judging by the presented renderings, the corvette's armament should include two four-container anti-ship missile launchers (apparently Turkish Roketsan Atmaca), a 76-mm Leonardo Oto Super Rapid universal artillery system and, presumably, two 12.7-mm remotely controlled Aselsan STAMP machine gun combat modules. The bulk of the electronic weapons and equipment should probably be Turkish-made. Earlier renderings of the FACM-70 project also depicted the Turkish 35 mm double-barreled anti-aircraft artillery complex Aselsan Gokdeniz on the stern, but judging by the image of Indonesian ships used at the October 30 ceremony, it will not be installed on them.
An early rendering of a small corvette of the FACM-70 project developed by the Turkish shipbuilding consortium TAIS (c) TAIS
The ceremony of the first steel cutting and the start of construction at the Turkish shipyard Sefine Shipyard for the Indonesian Navy of the lead of two ordered small corvettes of the FACM-70 project (Indonesian designation of the KCR-70M project). Altynova, 10/30/2024 (c) Achmad Rizal Purnama / defense-studies.blogspot.com
