Three frigates are set to be axed from Adelaide’s Hunter warship build as part of a major restructuring of the Australian Navy.
The Defence Minister will release a long-awaited response to a review of the Navy’s surface fleet today.
It will reveal the cost of building the original nine frigates has blown out by almost $20 billion.
To make up for the reduction in frigates, a new fleet of next-generation air warfare destroyers will be built.
They are aimed at countering threats posed by China.
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WOW Australia is done. This guy is just giving it away!
Labor making it really easy for their CCP to take us with no fight. Their leaders don't like competition for their roles. Watch your heads Albanese and Wong.
Very funny, Australia’s navy is so weak we can’t manage to send a ship to support our allies, now we’re axing our frigates 😡
Another genius master stroke by the Labor Feds. It's ok, it's what have come to expect now, they have a reputation to maintain. As the ADF slides gracefully into a woke oblivion, and Australian borders begin to show clear signs of exposure to foreign access, first thing we need to do, cut the local building of defence ships, by one third. I am surprised we didn't contract them out to China but maybe that will be the next stage. Why did we cut the plan, well, there was a cost blow out. Was that cost blow out from the Voice referendum? or was it the solar panels and wind turbines? We will never know, its all behind closed doors. Of course we are far too stupid to figure that out. But as we are assured, it is absolutely all caused by the previous Libs Govt, of course. Vote, vote, vote. It's all there is. You get what you vote for.
Why would you get rid of any working friget, before the installation of new ones. This lying, unintelligent, moronic government and the woke useless defence department has a death wish for Australia.
axing 3 makes it more expensive to build them as quantity keeps price reasonable. Our defense procurement is a corrupt disaster for decades.
The Labor Party has put aside 2-3 Billion Dollars so everyone in Australia can learn Chinese , Mandarin or Cantonese your choice
Labour will hand Australia over to the CCP with out a fight since they're all on the take 🤔
You can imagine a super navy that you can build by 2035 but if World War 3 happens before 2030 what good is that super navy that’s not ready yet? Are the designs of these new aerial warfare destroyers already complete and construction can begin right away? Can the first ships be commissioned in two or three years?
The cost and timeline blowout is because the Defence industry in Australia molested the Type 26 design.
“Australianising” is a rort promoted by self interested profiteers.
More good news from Labor 😂😂😂
What threat is China to Australia, the biggest threat is the US.
So we are acquiring warships and submarines to counter the threat from an aggressive China, yet we allow hundreds thousands of them to permanently settle in Australia…
The ADF is hilarious but in a sad way.
Dont worry though they are meeting their quota of non binary zealot jellyfish.
Such a strong and emotional empowered jellyfish.
China is producing a fleet every year in the size of the English navy .If they are scared of Australia. FOCUS ON HOME SOIL PROBLEMS LIKE HOUSING AND PULBIC HOSPITALS ,NOT SPEND TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS EVERY YEAR ,THAT ANDREW BOLT WANTS.
So doubling the size of the fleet, but reducing the existing fleet, means the doubling will actually be smaller.
Typical Labour Government shadow of the last time they were in.
We still have 10 canoes.
It's just theatre for the masses, our governments (Not just labor) waste so much money on entertaining the whims of the ignorant while totally neglecting any long-term plans for Australia's security. Should reality hit hard, like another world war, we will be defenseless and will pay the ultimate price for our ignorance and pure stupidity. 🦘
Sell them to China?
protect AUSTRALIA ,not the war Mungers of the world . small patrol boats if they must. BUT its FREE to be come a neutral country ,no hands lost and billions if not closed to a trillion saved .. how many hospitals ,schools homes .roads dams could that money build if its not used to destroy/kill.? this constant wanting to be the world police is a folly that will only take lives never save..
Hunters class after being reduced to 6 ships makes each cost per unit bigger now it will be in the early $3 billion per ship could of just kept building Hobart class for $2 billion each or less
Man, they won’t let y’all have anything cool.
paint em pink for a new lease in life.
blackrock agrees.
If the Albanese government didn’t spend all the useless money on a referendum no one agreed wit, then maybe we could’ve actually had more frigates
so they are making the fleet bigger by making it smaller
Labor untrustworthy on defense
Could have Italian frigates built in Australia
IF CHINA WANTS TO HARM AUSTRALIAN IT ONLY HAVE TO PUT TARIFF ON HER PRODUCTS