Australia’s First Arafura-class OPV Starts Sea Trials

Australia’s First Arafura-class OPV Starts Sea Trials

The first Australian Arafura-class OPV, NUSHIP Arafura, has commenced builder trials at builder Osborne in South Australia. The sea trials follow two year delay in commissioning the first of class OPV in a program Australia reduced from twelve to six hulls earlier this year.