Overview of Australian Navy Warships in 2023

The Royal Australian Navy is a major regional force in the Pacific Ocean. It possesses a good balance of destroyers, frigates, amphibious warships and attack submarines. This video reviews the RAN's major warship classes, and upcoming units under development.

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Tags: Hobart class destroyer, ANZAC class frigate, Collins class submarine, Canberra class, Armidale class, Hunter class, Arafura class, AUKUS SSN, military, defence

[NavalEnthusiast]

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[AllAboutYouTubers]

*I class Australia as part of the same because I’m English and if anyone attacked them obviously we would be there to help them hundred percent no doubt about that! The people would demand it but the Government would be addressing the nation of what days lay ahead and why it matters because some people don’t even know the capital of their own countries these days lol*

[brettmitchell]

Canberra class are 27, 500 tonnes standard displacement.

[BaconGold]

Very well researched. I especially appreciate the fact that you have even looked into cancelled proposals as well as future procurements. You have earned a subscriber sir!

[rmar]

As an Australian I’d like to point out that although our military does and always has punched well above its weight class, to call us a major power is a little bit of a stretch. A moderate power for sure. But we lack the strength of numbers to ever be declared a major power.

[Rob-rryp]

Been waiting for this one. It seems we have such a huge area to defend with such a small population

[AugmentedGravity]

What makes the Anzac's spesial now are their world class CEAFAR 2 AESA radars. Those things are insane. The Hobart is a good destroyer, basically a smaller Bruke with just less armament.

[vintagetintrader]

I’m surprised Australia does not make more Canberra class, it must suit our needs in multiple roles. I usually get to see them each year off my home town when the winter war games usually happen in Nth Qld.

[ryanandtech]

This was a very well made video, thankyou for taking the time to do the research, one minor thing and its not yet confirmed i know there was rumours of looking into getting 3 more destroyers and possibly looking at buying corvettes but again nothing has been made official as of yet.

[jamieshields]

Interesting is proposal 3 more DDG on offer from Spain plus 6 corvettes to take over light arm OPVs. What missing here 2 new supply ships plus 2 smaller JSV supply ships. It’s going be interesting next decade of decision making of how many surface fleet will be offer n more DDG or more Frigates plus additional of corvettes?

[Nathan-ryyu]

Australia Navy is under a complete review and update will be given at the end of next month September 2023. As for what vessels Australia will require how many.

Australia navy has a few ships that's nearing its service life. It will be interesting about the requirements will be added to the next future fleet. And if Australia will get heavily armed corvettes for OPV or if they go with larger ships.

One thing I do understand is Australian navy don't want a brown water navy fleet. Defence Strategic planners like the ideal for blue water vessels for Australia region. As they like to project as far as they can. This not just for fleet requirements but also long strike missile capability

[NoName-dsuq]

I need to add that although the ANZAC FFHs in the RAN have only 1 Mk41 VLS, they carry quad-packed ESSM, making a total of 32 SAMs.

I love seeing my old home port at Stirling on Garden Island!

[johngodden]

The Hobart Class AWDs now have @ new suite of missiles including Tomahawk, SM6, NSM, SM2 and ESSM2, as of Dec 2024.

[thantzweaung]

Australia's navy is massive in context of its population, but miniscule in context of its responsibility.
France is in the region. US, PRC, India, all with stakes in that region. Then, there's ASEAN.

[iffracem]

Just a small point, Australian defence force does not have any "Marines", the three arms are Army, Navy and Airforce and all act well as a combined force. The "marines" you mention would be Soldiers of the Army

[philscott]

2:47 Tell us again why Australia bought a pair of short takeoff aircraft carriers while not ordering any of the short takeoff version of the F35?

[bernadmanny]

I wouldn't call the Hunter class frigate heavily armed given that it has less VLS cells than the Hobart AWD, give that the Australian Type 26 has increased to 10, 000ish it is very weakly armed, is it even a frigate any more at that size? Back in the day that would be called a cruiser.

[DairyCat]

More of a technical question, but why does the Canberra LHC have a ski jump if it doesn't operate fixed wing fighters? Drones?

[heartofoak]

They need to maintain a substantial fighting capability which should include a conventional aircraft carrier. This would enable them to form a formidable task force, which when allied to the U.K.'s two task forces would present a considerable 'deterrent'.

[andrewsmall]

This information is quite outdated now, it's looking like the Arafura class is being COMPLETELY cancelled and we'll more than likely be acquiring possibly dozens of small but heavily armed corvettes. It's also looking like we'll only get a maximum of 3 Hunter class frigates, where the gap will be filled but extra corvettes or more Hobart class destroyers.