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Navy/USMC

Australia Picks BAE For New $26 Billion Frigate Program

Friday, June 29th, 2018

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Australia Picks BAE For New $26 Billion Frigate Program

Rendering of the huture Hunter-class frigate, based on BAE's Type 26 Global Combat Ship. (Image: Australian Ministry of Defence)

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…

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