オーストラリア海軍：アンザック級フリゲート艦が退役へ
澳洲海軍：安扎克級護衛艦即將退役
Australian Navy: Anzac class frigate to be retired
・HMAS ANZAC(FFH-150)の退役が決定
・去年、日本の呉に寄港。 28年間ご苦労様
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the Royal Australian Navy：
decommissions lead Anzac-class frigate HMAS Anzac seen here in the Sydney Harbour.
The ship was decommissioned on 18 May 2024.
Australia has decommissioned its lead Anzac (MEKO 200)-class guided-missile frigate.
The vessel：
which saw service with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as HMAS Anzac,
was formally retired in a decommissioning ceremony on 18 May at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia.
Prior to its decommissioning：
Anzac was the longest-serving commissioned vessel in service with the RAN, the Australian Department of Defence (DoD) noted in an 18 May statement to mark the retirement.
Decommissioning HMAS Anzac：
１．will pave the way for the long-term investment in enlarging and enhancing [the] navy’s fleet,
２．in response to the recommendations made by the independent analysis of [the] navy’s surface combatant fleet,” the statement added.
Anzac was commissioned
by the RAN in May 1996 and is one of seven frigates in the class operated by the service.
Weapons onboard the warship include
eight launchers for the RGM-84J/L Harpoon Block II anti-ship missiles,
an eight-cell Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS) for anti-air missiles,
six 324 mm torpedo tubes, and an Mk 45 127 mm naval gun as its primary weapon.
https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/australia-decommissions-lead-anzac-class-frigate
End of an era：as first Anzac-class frigate
From PS News
One of the key elements of February’s Surface Combatant Review：
was the replacement of the Royal Australian Navy’s eight Anzac-class frigates with a new class of ”general purpose frigates” from 2030.
This plan ：
saw the much larger Hunter-class frigate program
１．reduced in scope from an intended nine vessels to six,
２．and the Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) program reduced from at least 12 hulls to just six as well.
While these changes will eventually boost the navy’s overall number of surface combatants,
in the short term ：
there will be a dip in numbers, as some of the Anzac-class frigates won’t make it until the first general-purpose or Hunter-class frigate enters service.