Search This Blog

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Construction begins on Adelaide's $8 billion Air Warfare Destroyers

F-100 ClassSparks are flying at Port Adelaide as work on the $8 billion air warfare destroyers project finally gets to the stage of cutting hard metal.

The ships are being constructed out of huge metal blocks manufactured at three sites - one at Port Adelaide and the others in Victoria and New South Wales - which will then be brought together for assembly at TechPort in Osborne.

At a formal ceremony today to launch the construction phase of the massive project, ASC managing director and chief executive officer Steve Ludlam said the simultaneous construction of AWD blocks in multiple Australian shipyards reflected a truly national commitment to building the three air warfare destroyers.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.