{"id":48098,"date":"2024-02-20T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=48098"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T05:32:15","slug":"australia-says-to-build-biggest-navy-since-world-war-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=48098","title":{"rendered":"Australia says to build biggest navy since World War II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Australia on Tuesday outlined a decade-long plan to double its fleet of major warships and boost defence spending by an additional US$7 billion, in the face of a quickening Asia-Pacific arms race.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the plan, Australia will get a navy of 26 major surface combatant ships, up from 11 today.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the largest fleet that we will have since the end of the Second World War,&#8221; said Defence Minister Richard Marles.<\/p>\n<p>Australia will build six Hunter class frigates, 11 general-purpose frigates and six state-of-the-art surface warships that do not need to be crewed.<\/p>\n<p>At least some of the fleet will be armed with Tomahawk missiles capable of carrying out long-range stand-off strikes on targets deep inside enemy territory &#8212; a major deterrent capability.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a massive build-up of firepower by rivals China and Russia, and amid growing confrontation between nervous US-led allies and increasingly bellicose authoritarian governments.<\/p>\n<p>The plan would see Australia increase its defence spending to 2.4 percent of gross domestic product, above the two percent target set by its NATO allies.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ships will be built in Adelaide, ensuring more than 3,000 jobs, but some will be sourced from US designs and a still undecided design from Spain, Germany, South Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia on Tuesday outlined a decade-long plan to double its fleet of major warships and boost defence spending by an additional US$7 billion, in the face of a quickening Asia-Pacific arms race. Under the plan, Australia will get a navy of 26 major surface combatant ships, up from 11 today. &#8220;It is the largest fleet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[556],"class_list":["post-48098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-australia-says-to-build-biggest-navy-since-world-war-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}