Indonesia Achieved Overall Winner at 2014 AASAM

Indonesian shooter contingent were successfully became an overall winner on 2014 Australian Army Skills at Arms Meeting (AASAM) shooting competition with 32 gold medals, 15 silver medals, and 20 bronze medals. On this annual shooting competition, Indonesian Army contingent became an overall winner by using some of PT Pindad (Persero) weapon products.

On the shooting competition which held on May 5^th-16^th 2014 at Puckapunyal Military Area Victoria, Australia, Indonesian contingent were using some of PT Pindad weapon products such as SS2-HB (Heavy Barrel) assault rifle, SM-2 and SM-3 machine gun, and G2 handgun Elite version. Like the previous years, Indonesian contingent were participated in some of competition categories such as individual and team on riffles, handgun, automatic rifles section, and combination of both of riffles and automatic rifles.

On 2014 AASAM, Indonesia were facing the shooting team which came from 15 countries such as Australia, Canada, France (FF New Caledonia), Timor Leste, Brunei, United Kingdom, US Army, US Marines, New Zealand, Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea and Tonga. A good team performance and reliability of the shooter, supported by accurate weapons were made Indonesia became an overall champion, followed by Australia and Brunei Darussalam on a second and third place.

Indonesia was managed to get this AASAM overall winner since 2008 until 2014 and surely, this is a very proud thing for the nation. For PT Pindad (Persero) itself, this achievement was a proof that PT Pindads weapons have a good quality and high level of accuracy. (Anggia)