{"id":615390,"date":"2026-04-18T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615390\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:31:10","slug":"australia-japan-ink-multibillion-dollar-warship-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/615390\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia, Japan Ink Multibillion Dollar Warship Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/militaryai.ai\/\" aria-label=\"WhatsApp Video 2026-01-06 at 04.30.24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/WhatsApp-Video-2026-01-06-at-04.30.24.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"1470\" height=\"620\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japan agreed on Saturday on a deal to provide Australia\u2019s navy with the first of almost a dozen stealth frigates, part of a wider military build up by Canberra aimed at boosting its long-range firepower to deter China.<\/p>\n<p>Under the deal announced last year and billed as one of Japan\u2019s biggest defense export deals since World War II, Australia will pay Au$10 billion ($6 billion) over the next 10 years to acquire the fleet of stealth frigates.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s Defence Minister Koizumi Shinjiro attended the signing of the contract to deliver the first three of the ships, Australia\u2019s defence ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the fastest acquisition for the Royal Australian Navy in peacetime,\u201d Australia\u2019s Minister for Defence Industry Pat Conroy said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are working closely with Japanese and Australian industry partners as we acquire one of the most, if not the most, advanced general-purpose frigates in the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Australia is striving to expand its fleet of major warships from 11 to 26 over the next decade.<\/p>\n<p>Mitsubishi Heavy Industries was awarded the tender over Germany\u2019s Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mogami-class warships are advanced stealth frigates equipped with a potent array of weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is deepening cooperation with US allies in the Asia-Pacific region that, like Tokyo, are involved in territorial disputes with China.<\/p>\n<p>Both Japan and Australia are members of the \u201cQuad\u201d group alongside India and the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan agreed on Saturday on a deal to provide Australia\u2019s navy with the first of almost a dozen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1724,64,63,941,44,10956,84],"class_list":{"0":"post-615390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-japan","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pacific","14":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615390","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=615390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}