CASG acknowledges Hunter-class build challenges
As the Royal Australian Navy looks ahead to acquiring Hunter-class frigates, RADM Anthony Dalton, General Manager of Ships at Australia’s Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG), acknowledged the challenges ahead.
When building the three-ship Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyers (AWD), Dalton said that ASC Shipyard in Osborne, South Australia was basically a consolidation yard, ‘which is very different for what we’re going to need for the Hunter-class frigate’.
‘Hunter class will be built in a single shipyard so we need a more vertically integrated shipyard, and that’s the work that’s happening at Osborne
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