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Monday, December 20, 2010

New air warfare destroyer HQ opens at Osborne but fourth warship 'unlikely'

SPS Alvaro de Bazan (F-100 Class)The new $40 million headquarters for the air warfare destroyers has been officially opened, but a much-hyped fourth warship appears unlikely.

Premier Mike Rann said this morning the State Government was still hopeful the Commonwealth would commit to build a fourth destroyer, in addition to the three warships already being built as part of the $8 billion project.

"It's in the (Defence) White Paper that at a certain stage in the process the Federal Government will then decide whether to build a fourth air warfare destroyer, we hope that they will," he told reporters at Techport Australia at Osborne.

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