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HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41), the second of three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), fired the Tomahawk missile during its ongoing ‘interchangeability deployment’ to the US. Throughout that deployment Brisbane has operated out of Naval Base San Diego where the ship also completed a four-week maintenance availability with the support of the US Navy.
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Australia is only the third nation to fire the long range cruise missile after the United States and the United Kingdom.
HMAS Brisbane (DDG-41), the second of three Hobart-class air warfare destroyers in the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), fired the Tomahawk missile during its ongoing ‘interchangeability deployment’ to the US. Throughout that deployment Brisbane has operated out of Naval Base San Diego where the ship also completed a four-week maintenance availability with the support of the US Navy.
Vice Admiral Mark Hammond, Australia’s Chief of Navy, said:“Our nation has few existential issues, but access to the sea is one of them. This is a historic advancement in terms of uplifting the lethality of the Royal Australian Navy in such a short period of time,”“We are doing everything humanly and legally possible to optimise the Royal Australian Navy’s surface combatant fleet as quickly as possible, as directed by the Australian Government.” VADM Hammond added.
Australia has not disclosed how many Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAM) the country is buying, however, in 2023 the US State Department’s Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) of 200 Block V and 20 Block IV RGM-109E missiles to Australia.
The total possible value of that and another Tomahawk-related FMS case, approved in January 2024, is $1.14 billion (~$1.78 billion AUD). That price tag, however, doesn’t include money being spent on the Australian side or that is being invested by Australia in developing and expanding its targeting and mission planning enterprise to.
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