To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Indonesian armed forces, the state-owned shipyard PT PAL very confidently presented the nationally developed prototype of an unmanned submarine (KSOT-008, 15 metres, 37 tonnes) to the public. Equipped with on-board AI and guided by an Autonomous Submarine Command Centre (ASCC) at a maximum distance of 400 kilometres, KSOT can operate independently submerged for three days before it has to be plugged in again. It remains unclear when KSOT will be put into service and whether six units will go into series production. In any case, Indonesia has joined the elite club of XLUUV drivers such as the USA, China, Russia, Australia, France and the UK. And that's not all: PT PAL will soon be rebuilding two Scorpène-Evolved submarines via French technology transfer. And at the Italian Marina Militare, Indonesia has had an interested hand on the aged carrier "Guiseppe Garibaldi" since the beginning of the year, which was decommissioned at the end of 2024 and assigned to the reserve. This is what generational leaps look like.