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Future Frigates

Friday, December 01

MOU signed to provide fridges for frigates

Cold Logic has entered into an agreement with Ernest West & Beynon to fulfil Australian Navy refrigeration needs.

BAE Systems wins $35 billion bid to build war frigates in South Australia

ASC Shipbuilding will build nine anti-submarine warfare frigates for the Australian Navy in Adelaide after BAE Systems was chosen as the preferred tenderer for the $35 billion SEA 5000 project.

Royal Australian Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett in front of AWD Sydney at its launch in Osborne, South Australia. Picture: Russell Millard.

Third next generation Australian warship launched

Australia’s third and final next generation warship has been launched in Adelaide, bringing the most complex defence project in the nation’s history a step closer to completion.

New local links in Future Frigate supply chain

The supply chain of the SEA 5000 Future Frigate Program has begun to firm up with a South Australian metalworking firm joining Raytheon Anschuetz.