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Red and White Frigates. More Swordfish on the Way

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Last December, an Indonesian shipyard in Surabaya (East Java) launched and christened a prototype ship, being built under the Fregat Merah Putih (Indonesian: "Red-White Frigate") program. The KRI Balaputradewa was named after the maharaja who ruled the kingdom of Srivijaya in Sumatra in the 9th century AD. It is the first of two [multi-role frigates](https://defence24.pl/sily-zbrojne/kadlub-wichra-rosnie-foto) built under an agreement concluded …
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Last December, an Indonesian shipyard in Surabaya (East Java) launched and christened a prototype ship, being built under the Fregat Merah Putih (Indonesian: "Red-White Frigate") program. The KRI Balaputradewa was named after the maharaja who ruled the kingdom of Srivijaya in Sumatra in the 9th century AD. It is the first of two [multi-role frigates](https://defence24.pl/sily-zbrojne/kadlub-wichra-rosnie-foto) built under an agreement concluded …

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Defence24 broke the news in on Friday, January 23, 2026.
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