AUSTRALIA’S most powerful warship — the Adelaide-built destroyer Hobart — is about to take to the open seas for the first time, as schedule and cost blowouts are reined in on the $9 billion project.
Australia is stretching out the construction of three air defense destroyers, aiming to preserve skills without adding to the cost of the Navantia-designed, Hobart-class ships. The first of the ...
HMAS Sydney , seen here with the Naval Strike Missile launcher on its starboard side, as it carries out a formation entry into Sydney Harbour with HMAS Warramunga and New Zealand's HMNZS Manawanui .