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 ...

But there’s a problem: Australia doesn’t have enough warships to deploy them all. With only ten current surface combatants—three Hobart-class destroyers and seven aging Anzac-class frigates—soon to be ...

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.