A sweeping review of the Royal Australian Navy will see a sharp increase in the number of warships, giving the navy greater firepower and strategic options in the face of a massive Chinese military build-up.
The shake-up will see the number of the navy’s major surface combatants eventually rise from 11 to 20 in addition to 6 new “optionally crewed surface vessels” armed with missiles to support the main fleet.
The centrepiece of the new plan is the acquisition of a new fleet of 11 general purpose frigates, to be built both overseas and locally, to replace the ageing ANZAC frigates. The government said the new frigate fleet would be fast-tracked ‘to address the risk presented by an ageing and increasingly fragile surface combatant fleet.’
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