Navy to have infantry brigade

Navy to have infantry brigade

SURABAYA: Navy Chief of Staff Vice Marshall Bernard Kent Sondakh
has said here on Friday that the Navy will have an infantry
brigade within two years.

To that end, the Navy had forged cooperation with the
Ambassador of Poland, he said, referring to Krzysztof Szumski in
his talks with Navy officers in the Eastern Navy Headquarters
here.

"We are at the stage of establishing military cooperation with
the Polish government for that purpose," he was quoted as saying
in front of more than 1,000 officers by Antara news agency.

Sondakh also said that the Navy was adopting a three-tier
system for its fleet in the near future, namely battle ships,
patrol ships and rescue ships.

The Navy has only 14 battle-ready ships at the moment, he
said, but they would be able to deal with "low-intensity
conflicts" wherever they were needed. --Antara