According to Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, if the investments he announced on Tuesday materialize, the Royal Australian Navy will ultimately have the largest fleet it has known "
since the end of the Second War." world”.
After a study concluding that the force of surface ships was aging and no longer adapted to the challenges posed by China's growing ambitions in the Indo-Pacific, the Australian government plans to spend 6.7 billion euros over the next ten years, in order to modernize and increase its fleet.
This new investment will increase the defense budget to 2.4% of Australian GDP around 2030.
An international shipyard
The central element is based on the acquisition of eleven multi-mission frigates, of which the first three examples, so that they arrive as quickly as possible, will be built abroad and without modification, while the others will be made by the shipyard from Henderson, Western Australia.
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