Indonesia is a country with respectable defense potential in Southeast Asia, with impressive defense industry achievements
One of those is the Badak fire support vehicle designed and produced by PT Pindad
The vehicle was unveiled at Indo Defense & Aerospace 2014
PT Pindad received an order from the Ministry of Defence, Republic of Indonesia to deliver 50 vehicles to the Indonesian Army in January 2016
Pindad plans to roll out 25 to 30 Badak vehicles each year from its plant in Bandung
As of 2018, the order was reduced to 14 vehicles. It is intended to replace the Alvis Saladin
Badak has a full load weight of about 14 tons, a length of 6m, a width of 2.5m, and a height of 2.9m
The vehicle featured a new design with all-welded monocoque steel hull with STANAG 4569 Level 3 protection
based on a modified chassis of the Anoa 6×6 armoured personnel carrier
The layout houses the power pack on front-left, driver’s position on the right side of the forward hull, and turret in the middle of the hull
The vehicle is manned by three crew members
The driver is provided with a single-piece hatch cover with three day vision periscopes
The rear hull is fitted with two single doors, and the turret is provided with two hatch covers and a stowage basket
Badak is equipped VHF/HF radio communications, intercom, air-conditioning and heating system, global positioning system and navigation system
The two-person turret has a baseline protection of up to STANAG 4569 Level 1 (upgradable to Level 4) and is armed with a 90 mm low-pressure rifled gun
The weapon system allows the firing of armour piercing fin-stabilised discarding sabot tracer (APFSDS-T)
high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT), high-explosive squash head (HESH-T) and Canister anti-personnel rounds
The turret can be integrated with a range of sight and fire control systems including day / night gunner’s sight, laser range finder and a ballistic computer
In addition, there is a 7.62 mm co-axial machine gun
with another 7.62 mm machine gun mounted on the left side of the turret roof for use in the limited air and self-defence roles
and also two-banks of 76 mm smoke grenade projectors on either side of the turret
Powering the Indonesian machine is a new 340-horsepower six-cylinder diesel engine
coupled to a fully-automatic transmission with six forward gears and a reverse gear
It includes double wishbone independent suspension for better stability while firing the 90mm canon
The propulsion system enables the vehicle to achieve a maximum road speed of 90km/h and a maximum range of 600km