Considered one of six new Navy defence vessels is being inbuilt Western Australia as a part of Australia's newest protections towards safety threats.
It's a part of the federal authorities's $334 million defence bundle aiming to strengthen Australia's borders.
"We will not simply faux the world goes to proceed on the way in which it has and the battle in Ukraine has demonstrated that," Assistant Minister for Defence Andrew Hastie stated.
The 58m boat is being constructed on the Austal transport yard within the Perth suburb of Henderson.
"The typical construct time is nearly 18 months to construct one in every of these vessels, one thing we're very happy with to signal a contract for this vessel and ship the primary in two years," Austal CEO Padd Gregg stated.
The brand new vessel is designed to patrol the identical waters across the Coral Sea the place the Chinese language Navy used a laser to assault a Royal Australian Air Power aircraft in February.
"That is a reminder we now have to be vigilant, we now have to be ready to survey and patrol our approaches and defend our sovereignty and that is why we want these patrol boats," Mr Hastie stated.
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The brand new boats can be delivered to the Navy each 4 months, with the fleet anticipated to be completed and within the water by the top of 2023.