IN DEPTH FRIGATES AUS DEFENCE, MADE IN JAPAN
best frigate for Australia” – but delivering on the deal will not be without challenges, writes David Foxwell
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n a major departure from convention, the Australian Department of Defence has selected a Japanese
rather than a European design for its next frigate foreign sale of a major newbuild weapons platform – will boost Australian naval capabilities and Japan’s between the two nations.
In early August 2025, Australia’s deputy prime minister and minister for defence, Richard Marles, announced that the Albanese government was accelerating the delivery of its next surface Heavy Industries (MHI) as the preferred platform equipped for undersea warfare and air defence. essential part of the Albanese government’s plan surface combatants.
Marles said the Japanese design had been selected “following a rigorous and competitive tender process in which an upgraded version of the strategic needs of the Australian Defence Force”. The minister said the Australian government also
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Missile strike range is a 3,900tonne standard (5,500tonne full load) displacement vessel with a length of 133m, a beam of 16.5m and a draught of 9m. It has combined diesel and gas (CODAG) propulsion based on a diesel engines.
The frigates have an active electronically scanned Rolling Airframe Missile launcher for air defence, missile types.
load) and will have a range of up to 10,000nm and a missile defence weapons of their type, weapons
THE NAVAL ARCHITECT
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