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By NICK LEE-FRAMPTON
Wellington, New Zealand — Anticipating the next phase of the upgrade to the Royal New Zealand Navy’s Anzac-class frigate combat systems, itself part of the frigates’ platform system upgrade, New Zealand’s Ministry of Defence has issued request for tenders for anti-ship missile defense soft kill (ASK) underwater systems and an electronic support measures suite.
The upgrade was approved in November 2007 at an estimated cost of 57.6 million New Zealand dollars ($47.6 million) and the request for the ASK suite says current life is “to at least until 2030.”
The two 387-foot frigates were commissioned in 1997 and 1999.
The ASK suite should “be built up from subsystems that are near-identical to those in service with a larger NATO Navy, the Royal Australian Navy or the Royal Canadian Navy.”
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