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The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will be bringing Exercise Skytrain to Wanaka and the surrounding regions from 15 – 26 March 2021.
Exercise Skytrain is a C-130 Hercules training activity used by No. 40 Squadron to consolidate skills learnt at Base Auckland. The exercise provides crews with a range of flying training including over unfamiliar and challenging terrain, coordinating pallet drops into drop zones and landing the aircraft on runways different to those in Auckland.
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Read more: Air Force bringing Exercise to Wanaka
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he Royal New Zealand Navy vessel HMNZS Canterbury has left for Raoul Island with MetService and GNS Science staff aboard to carry out essential tasks, including maintenance of critical weather and tsunami warning systems.
Maritime Component Commander Commodore Mat Williams said the re-supply mission, which left on Monday, was delayed a week and scaled back after Auckland went into COVID-19 alert level three.
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Read more: Essential tasks Raoul radar for HMNZS Canterbury
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The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) wants to see what the jetpack technology is capable of doing and how it can be applied by the military, particularly special forces units.
In a solicitation posted on the government contracting site, the agency said it was interested in seeing how soldiers can benefit from what it referred to as “portable personal air mobility systems.”
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Read more: DARPA looking into jetpack tech for military use
- Article: https://defbrief.com/2021/03/06/darpa-looking-into-jetpack-tech-for-military-use/
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The crew of HMAS Hobart used a replenishment-at-sea exercise to pass gifts to the crew of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s newest ship, HMNZS Aotearoa, in a show of camaraderie.
Navy’s guided missile destroyer rendezvoused with Aotearoa off the coast of Sydney on March 1.
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Read more: Tim Tams cap off exercise with NZ ship
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Australia's top military officer has come under fire for suggesting first-year cadets be less attractive and avoid going out after midnight if they want to avoid being sexually assaulted.
The Canberra Times reports Defence chief Angus Campbell told officers in training to avoid "the four A's" - alcohol, out after midnight, alone and attractive.
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WATCH the Royal New Zealand's Navy's ship HMNZS Aotearoa and her crew have conducted their first successful Replenishment at Sea trials when they met up with the Australian Navy ships HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Hobart off Australia’s east coast.
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Read more: HMNZS Aotearoa first successful RAS
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Melanie Huata-Lucas - who last year became the first representative of the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauae - says she hopes to encourage other wahine Māori sailors to be confident in their identity.
The 32-year-old received her moko kauae after 13 years of service with the Navy as a sailor and events co-ordinator. She is now transitioning into a new role as marae events and protocol manager for the Navy.
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Read more: Māori woman first Royal NZ Navy representative to have moko kauae
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The U.S. Air Force’s top officer wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of Cold War-vintage F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated—but costly and unreliable—stealth fighters.
The result would be a high-low mix of expensive “fifth-generation” F-22s and F-35s and inexpensive “fifth-generation-minus” jets, explained Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr.
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Read more: The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
- Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-force-just-admitted-the-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-failed/
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