{"id":3784,"date":"2018-06-21T20:28:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3784"},"modified":"2018-06-21T20:28:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T20:28:53","slug":"australia-tipped-to-buy-british-frigates-in-35-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/21\/australia-tipped-to-buy-british-frigates-in-35-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSTRALIA TIPPED TO BUY BRITISH FRIGATES IN $35 BILLION DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1168\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-560x315.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-260x146.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26-160x90.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/09\/Type-26.jpg 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Brisbanetimes<\/p>\n<p>By David Wroe<\/p>\n<p>Britain is strongly tipped to win the hard-fought contest to design and build Australia\u2019s new $35 billion fleet of naval frigates in a move that would firm up the partnership with a key ally at a time of international political uncertainty.<\/p>\n<p>Sources in Canberra and defence industry circles said it was all but certain that Britain\u2019s BAE Systems would be chosen as the international partner to design and help build what will form the backbone of the Royal Australian Navy\u2019s surface fleet for the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>The national security committee of cabinet is expected to discuss the decision soon, with an announcement possible by the end of next week.<\/p>\n<p>The British firm has been in a race against Italy\u2019s Fincantieri and Spain\u2019s Navantia for the contract to provide a design and help Australia build nine new frigates, starting in 2020. BAE has previously said the project will create more than 5000 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Defence has assessed the three bids and is understood to have made a recommendation on which offering would give the navy the best capability for key missions such as hunting enemy submarines.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.brisbanetimes.com.au\/politics\/federal\/australia-tipped-to-buy-british-naval-frigates-in-35-billion-deal-with-old-partner-20180619-p4zmea.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Brisbanetimes By David Wroe Britain is strongly tipped to win the hard-fought contest to design and build Australia\u2019s new $35 billion fleet of naval frigates in a move that would firm up the partnership with a key ally at a time of international political uncertainty. Sources in Canberra and defence industry circles said it&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/06\/21\/australia-tipped-to-buy-british-frigates-in-35-billion-deal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AUSTRALIA TIPPED TO BUY BRITISH FRIGATES IN $35 BILLION DEAL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3785,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions\/3785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}