Sampari

🇮🇩Indonesia
PAL Indonesia
2014 – Present
Overview
Sampari
The Sampari-class fast attack craft (KCR-60M) are Indonesian Navy vessels built by PT PAL Indonesia, designed to enhance maritime capabilities. Initially facing design challenges, improved versions feature better hull stability, advanced radar systems, and upgraded armament, including the BAE Systems Bofors 57mm gun and MBDA Exocet missiles, enabling effective naval hit-and-run tactics.
Specifications

General

GunsBofors SAK 57 mm
Propulsiontwo fixed pitch propellers
Research Notes

Indonesian KCR-60M missile boat programme

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The Sampari class is a domestically built Indonesian Navy fast attack craft programme centered on PT PAL production.

The Sampari class, also known as KCR-60M, was developed for the Indonesian Navy as a locally designed and built fast missile craft class. Construction by PT PAL Indonesia in Surabaya supports Indonesia's wider policy of growing domestic naval shipbuilding. The class follows earlier missile-boat needs while providing a larger and more modern coastal combatant.

60-metre fast missile craft

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The class combines high speed, anti-ship missiles, naval guns, and modern combat-system integration on a compact hull.

Sampari-class boats are about 60 metres long and are built for fast coastal strike and patrol missions. Their fit has varied by batch, with anti-ship missiles, medium-calibre guns, decoys, search radar, and combat-management systems. Terma's C-Series suite on later vessels shows how Indonesia has upgraded the class with modern sensors and electronic systems.

Archipelagic patrol and sea-denial role

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The Sampari class gives Indonesia missile-armed patrol capacity for its island geography and chokepoint-heavy waters.

Operationally, the class is suited to Indonesia's archipelagic environment, where fast missile craft can patrol coastal waters, respond to incursions, and threaten hostile surface ships near islands and straits. The boats are not blue-water frigates, but they add distributed sea-denial capability and visible national presence across Indonesian maritime approaches.

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