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Australia to build facility to test combat systems for future Hunter-class frigates

by Gabriel Dominguez & Julian Kerr

The Australian government will invest AUD65 million (USD50.3 million) to deliver a land-based facility to integrate and test the combat systems that will equip the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN’s) nine future Hunter-class frigates.

The Department of Defence (DoD) in Canberra said in a 20 May statement that construction company Hansen Yuncken has been engaged as the head contractor to build the test facility at the St Kilda Transmitting Station in South Australia.

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