
Australia said on Friday it selected Britain’s BAE Systems to build its nine next-generation anti-submarine frigates in its SEA 5000 program, a program worth up to $26 billion to design, build, and support the ships.BAE offered a variant of the Type 26 Global Combat Ship, the Global Combat Ship-Australia, to be the new frigates and Australia said they will be designated the the Hunter-class FFG. It beat fellow ship designers Fincantieri of Italy with its FREMM frigate and Navantia of Spain offering…