The navy’s leaders wanted an extensively modified RN County class. With the impending demise of its carrier-based aircraft in the early 1960s, the RAN needed an air-defence alternative to fighter planes and decided to acquire ships fitted with surface-to-air guided missiles.
Indonesia was, for a while, regarded as a threat because of its alignment with the Soviet Union. The Cold War had started, and the threat of communist expansion in Asia was taken seriously. Adams–class guided-missile destroyers.īy 1957, Australia’s government had a clear-eyed view that the nation’s security was much more closely linked with America than with Britain. On that journey, the RAN progressively underwent a major transformation in virtually every dimension, the catalyst for which was its operation of the Charles F. The outcome of that decision was that the RAN would successfully transition to be a highly valued ally of the US Navy, already the RN’s replacement as the world’s most powerful maritime force. That comfortable symbiosis had reached its zenith by 1957, when Prime Minister Robert Menzies announced to parliament that Australia would be moving towards standardising Australia’s military services with those of the United States. It was a relationship of great value to Australia. From its origins in 1901 until the late 1950s, through its deep association with the Royal Navy, the Royal Australian Navy became unmistakably British in outlook, practices and culture.
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