Australian Study Favors Shorter Warship Lives

Credit: HMAS Sydney: U.S. Navy
BEIJING—Keeping warships for only 20 years rather than the usual 30 may be an economical policy, Australian researchers have found as the country approaches a local shipbuilding program that threatens to consume much of the defense budget. The costly and disruptive modernization usually needed after...

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