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Navy’s frigates get $58m upgrade

6/10/2011 10:20:00

New air conditioning is part of an almost $60 million upgrade work being carried out on the Navy’s frigates –>

By Felix Marwick

New air conditioning is part of an almost $60 million upgrade work being carried out on the Navy’s frigates.

The detail’s emerged in financial figures in the Ministry of Defence’s annual report.

In total, just under $58 million is being spent on a two phase upgrade of platform systems on the vessels.

That includes work on improving heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.

The budget for that work is around $23 million.

 

 

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