RX-420 rockets made in Indonesia

RX-420 rocket Indonesia:

For the first time Indonesia rocket successfully launched the RX-420 in Garut, West Java. RX-420 is the largest rocket that made the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan).
Lapan publishing breakthrough that made the Indonesian National Army hopes to increase the performance of major equipment of weapons systems (defense equipment). Results of the test rocket was not just for scientific interest, but also military, in preparation for a missile deterrent.

"We hope the experiment Lapan materialized, to sustain the needs of missiles," said military spokesman, told Young Marshal Sagom Tamboen VIVAnews, Thursday, July 2, 2009 night.

Supplies of ammunition, including missiles, for the armed forces, Sagom said, is something that is commonplace. Sagom explained there are a variety of missiles, the contents are too wide. "There are some that have been produced [at home], there is still testing stage," he said.

Apparently, the military has used missile domestic production. "It's been a long time. Lapan already started to research dozens of years," he said.

Like what has been made in that country? "Almost the same as we buy outside," he explained.

Separately, Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono said rocket test the RX-420 in order to create an alternative weapon, the missile's base on land.

Juwono said the Defense Department was calculating whether missile weapons that originate on land was more expensive than purchases of ships and aircraft. "While consideration of the budget. Is it necessary that enough as a deterrent missile, or still need to ship air and sea. Its budget of the Department of Defense," said Juwono at the University of Paramadina Mulya, Jakarta, Thursday, July 2, 2009.

Previously, Kusmayanto Kadiman said that the launch rocket, Thursday, July 2, 2009 in Garut is a rocket made by the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (Lapan), the largest in Indonesia, the largest protelan uses material from the previous rockets.

According Kusmayanto, RX 420 cruising range rockets can reach 100 kilometers. "When racing, 4 times the speed of sound," said Kusmayanto Kadiman.