The deal will equip Australia’s navy with hundreds of advanced US-made long-range weapons.
Australia is set to acquire a $7 billion stockpile of long-range missiles from the United States to strengthen its defence capabilities, with Defence Industry Minister Patrick Conroy warning that the world faced the biggest arms race since World War II.
HMAS Sydney fires Royal Australian Navy’s first Standard Missile 6 near Hawaii during Exercise Pacific Dragon 2024.The SM-2 IIIC missiles have a range of 160 kilometres, while the SM-6, with a range of 370 kilometres, was already tested on Australia’s fleet last year At a press conference in Washington, Conroy refused to say when the missiles would be deployed on Australian warships, saying it could not be disclosed “for operational reasons”. He added that countries in the region had been expecting this announcement and would not be taken by surprise.“We live in the greatest arms race in our region since 1945 with a high degree of strategic uncertainty” and argued the missiles’ purpose was deterrence.
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