While the navy’s personnel are highly trained, its fleet consists of only 10 surface combatants: three relatively new Hobart-class air defence destroyers and seven ageing multirole Anzac-class ...

Anzac frigates and Hobart-class destroyers are on track to complete just 73 per cent of their planned operational hours this financial year. Defence Minister Richard Marles opens the Sovereign ...

Australia is heading toward a unique kind of defence dilemma—one that most militaries would envy. The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is set to operate one of the most advanced fleets of naval helicopters ...

Simultaneously, Australia’s navy presently has ten surface combatants – seven Anzac-class frigates and three Hobart-class destroyers – a total that will reduce by one next year when the frigate HMAS ...

will be integrated into Australia’s ANZAC-class frigates and Hobart-class destroyers. The system has already been operated by New Zealand’s two ANZAC-class frigates for about 10 years. Last week, ...

Australia launched a coordinated naval exercise this month involving four Anzac-class frigates operating as a single task ... The fleet operated alongside HMAS Choules, HMAS Hobart and air assets from ...

Stealthy, 600-ft Zumwalt destroyer costs $9B and appears as a fishing boat on radar.