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Japan has beat a German company to win a contract for 11 frigates in what will be its biggest-ever postwar foreign defense contract.

Australia will upgrade its navy with 11 frigates from Japan, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles said on Tuesday.

"This is clearly the biggest defense-industry agreement that has ever been struck between Japan and Australia," Marles said.

The 10 billion Australian dollar ($6.5 billion or €5.6 billion) deal saw Mitsubishi Heavy Industries awarded the tender to supply Mogami-class warships, beating out Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I had no idea Japan had a warship industry, advanced or not. Guess Mitsubishi never totally got out of the game!

For those not in the know, the Nagasaki bomb was meant to take out Mitsubishi's war machine. Mitsubishi made the Zeros that bombed my dad.

Japan makes DDGs that are more or less comparable with the USN’s Arleigh Burke class. They are quite good. They also build some pretty advanced non-nuclear AIP submarines too, iirc.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

The civilians were just a bonus

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Japan gotta make a little extra money to fund building an actual Gundam?…

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

A generation earlier and the RSL would have been pig-biting mad at this. (Which is probably why Japan wasn’t considered as a supplier of submarines.)

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Orange man is gonna be pissed af.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago

Could have had 33 basic warships for the same price.

[–] SGG@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I hope they include wave motion guns even though they're not battleships.