The Future Australian Navy Ep.5 Navantia's Alfa3000/Tasman Corevette  #defencenews #navy #australia
Channel: Soldiers Five
Date: 2024-03-06

In early 2023 Navantia, AUSTAL, and Civmec made an offer to the Australian government that in hindsight seems eerily prescient. 

The offer was for a 3000 ton corvette based on the mature Alfa3000 design already in service with the Venezuelan and Saudi Arabian Navies. With 16 MK41 VLS cells, a 5” main gun, 16 Naval Strike Missiles, 6 Ship launched torpedo’s and a close in weapons system. 

For sensors it will use the well tested combination of SAAB Mk3E combat system and indigenous CEAFAR phased array RADAR.  

With a towed array sonar and MH60R for ASW. 

All to be built in the now review recommended Henderson shipyards in Western Australia. 

Navantia has already cemented a place in the Australian procurement sphere having supplied the designs for the Canberra Class LHD’s, Hobart Class Destroyers and Supply class Auxiliary Oilers. 

And while delivery of these systems hasn’t been flawless given the time sensitive nature of the procurement process and experience of Navantia’s shipbuilders it may prove the only feasible option in the end.