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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Australia to buy amphibious military transport ship, aircraft

Royal Fleet Auxalliary Largs BayAustralia will buy a large amphibious warship from Britain and a C-17 wide-body military transport plane from Boeing to expand its fleet, which is currently on earthquake relief operations in Japan, the defence minister said on Thursday.

Defence Minister Stephen Smith said the navy would buy a surplus Royal Navy Bay Class heavy amphibious lift vessel, to complement two 27,000-tonne helicopter assault carriers on order from Spain and entering service in 2015.

Australia's air force would also buy an extra Boeing C-17 Globemaster transport because of its usefulness in disaster relief, both at home and after the recent earthquakes in New Zealand and Japan, Smith said.

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1 comment:

  1. Jimmy5/4/11 13:27

    What is the point of getting new ships if we can't look after the ones we have?

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