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But it’s now acquiring nuclear submarines, vastly more capable in the anti-submarine warfare role. One is that the current surface fleet was crafted at a time when the Navy was acquiring conventionally powered submarines.

At the time, Defence Minister Richard Marles noted two main takeaways. This review emerged from the Defence Strategic Review, released in April. Whether Australia needs corvettes is likely to be decided by the independent surface warship review which will report back to the government in September. Luerssen says the vessel could be equipped with an Australian CEA radar with Saab 9LV combat system. The C90 is a 2,300-tonne 90-metre steel-hulled warship, derived from the OPV design but with vastly increased firepower, including a 16 VLS cells, a 76mm main gun, 35mm secondary gun NSM anti-ship missiles and a pair of triple torpedo tubes. The company is proposing its C90 corvette for Australia, based on the Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels (MMPVs) it is building for the Bulgarian Navy at a yard at Varna on the Black Sea.

Luerssen is well established in Australia as builder of the Navy’s Arafura-class Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPVs).

German shipbuilder Luerssen says it can build small capable warships in Australia for the Royal Australian Navy within five years if the government decides to go down the corvette path.

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