Australia has chosen Japan\u2019s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build its new $10 billion fleet of frontline frigates, beating Germany\u2019s ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems in a contest that will shape the Royal Australian Navy for decades.<\/p>\n
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles is currently speaking to confirm the announcement, highlighting the importance of the decision for Australia\u2019s defence capabilities and strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a much bigger ship, which is able to operate with a much smaller crew. And that\u2019s a reflection of how modern this ship is. It\u2019s going to be really important in terms of giving our navy the capability to project,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Mogami Class has a range of 10,000 nautical miles, and that again compares to the Anzac Class frigates, which have a range of around 6,000 nautical miles. I want to emphasise that this decision is entirely based on the capability of the respective ships.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a decision that is made about how we can get the best platform, the best capability, for the Royal Australian Navy. That said, having made the decision, this does represent a very significant moment in the bilateral relationship between Australia and Japan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia has chosen Japan\u2019s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build its new $10 billion fleet of frontline frigates, beating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,84],"class_list":["post-44134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}