Category : News
Author: Zeba Siddiqui and Christopher Bing,

A Chinese state-sponsored hacking group has been spying on critical US infrastructure organisations, and New Zealand could be a target too, along with Australia, the UK and Canada, Western intelligence agencies and Microsoft say.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/490642/nz-warned-after-chinese-hackers-target-critical-us-infrastructure-intelligence-agencies
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Category : Opinion
Author: Dr Simon Ewing-Jarvie

New Zealand voters go to the polls in October. The policy lottery has begun with a range of pre-budget announcements from the Government on defence and the first party policy announcement – from the ACT Party – in its alternative budget.

Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2023/05/17/voters-beware-the-defence-2-ers/
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Category : Defence
Author: Tim Fish

A new Maritime Helicopter Replacement (MHR) project has been initiated that will see the Royal New Zealand Navy’s (RNZN’s) existing eight SH-2G(I) Seasprite helicopters replaced from 2027-28.

Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/rnzn-searches-for-naval-and-uas-helicopter-solutions
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Category : Opinion
Author: Reuben Steff

Dr Reuben Steff is a senior lecturer at the University of Waikato, where he teaches courses on geopolitics, international relations and global security.

OPINION: In December 2021, the Government released a defence assessment declaring that New Zealand’s security environment was being transformed by strategic competition between the United States and China, as well as climate change.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/132070459/diplomacy-isnt-enough--we-need-deterrence-and-defence
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Category : News
Author: Simon Shepherd & Gray Gibson
Category : News
Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s military has tested some of its beach-landing equipment in an overseas environment for the first time — a type of exercise one officer admitted hasn’t happened for a while amid recruitment woes and the pandemic.

Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/05/04/new-zealand-military-plays-catchup-in-pandemic-aftermath/
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Category : Defence

A key C-130-J project milestone was celebrated this week, as representatives from New Zealand, Defence personnel and Lockheed Martin senior staff gathered for a bulkhead signing ceremony at the factory in Marietta Georgia, USA.

Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/the-latest/story/new-c-130-js-taking-shape
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Category : Defence
Author: Thomas Manch

The Government will spend more than $400 million on boosting defence personnel’s wages in the coming for years, as it battles record-high attrition in the armed forces.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/131981601/chris-hipkins-announces-400m-for-defence-personnel-wages-after-returning-from-kings-coronation
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