ANALISIS PERTAHANAN UDARA DI PULAU SAUMLAKI MENGGUNAKAN SIMULASI EADSIM, STUDI KASUS F-16 TNI AU vs F/A-18 RAAF

• Main Author: Horasio, Kevin
• Format: Final Project
• Language: Indonesia
• Online Access: https://digilib.itb.ac.id/gdl/view/33623
• Institution: Institut Teknologi Bandung

Indonesia is very vulnerable to territorial violations, especially violations on the sea and air by countries near Indonesia. Therefore, Indonesian Air Force plans to build some air force base that located close to the border. One of the airbase is located in Saumlaki, Southwest Maluku which close to Indonesia-Australia border and now only have an early warning radar in there to support the airspace. The purpose of the construction is to anticipate a potential air threat which come from nearest country. Air threat which related to the infrastructure especially airbase is a bombardment. Therefore, the needs of air defense strategy in Saumlaki is crucial in order to obtain the best strategy to defend the airbase from the bombardment attack. In this research, the enemy use the Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft that have a role as a bomber or sweeper. The purpose of using sweeper aircraft to escort the bomber aircraft from potential air threat. The enemy aim to bomb the Saumlaki Airbase using the sweeper and bomber. The strategy is analyzed using EADSIM (Extended Air Defense Simulation) software, with use a variety of number of friend aircraft (F-16) to response the attack, aircraft radar, and time response to the attack. The success of a mission to defend the Saumlaki airbase is mainly affected by the number of friend aircraft to defend the airbase. On the other hand, variety of radar which used in aircraft affect the ability of friend’s aircraft to detect the enemy’s aircraft before the enemy detect the friend’s aircraft. The response time is the variety of delay after enemy’s aircraft have detected by early warning radar, this variety of time response results the difference of combat area location. To maximize the survability of the airbase, the the foe must be immediately killed by friend’s aircraft in order to reduce enemy chance to bombing the airbase. In order to kill enemy’s aircraft immediately, the combat area must be located after the enemy cross the border. The variety of time response strategy give the result of time delay to response the air threat and eliminate them shortly after they enter the Indonesia airspace.