Category : Defence
Author: Euan Graham
Just how relevant are the Five Power Defence Arrangements to contemporary threats? Often overlooked as an anachronism, the FPDA’s long-term survival will hinge on questions of interoperability, openness to future partnerships and sustained political buy-in, explains Euan Graham.

Article: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/2020/12/five-power-defence-arrangements
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Category : Defence
Author: Malcolm Davis

This morning, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds announced that the replacement for the much-troubled ‘Aussie Tiger’ armed reconnaissance helicopter (ARH) would be the Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian. Australia will acquire 29 of the advanced Apaches from 2025, at a cost of A$4.5 billion, to replace 22 Tigers. The minister stated:

Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-chooses-apache-as-tiger-helicopter-replacement/
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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

You have two hours to move within 200 metres of the observers and fire your first blank round. You start about one kilometre out, give or take. You cannot be seen at all. If you are seen, you fail.

Each year only 12 soldiers devote six weeks of their lives honing skills which they hope will match the exacting standards required to emerge out the other side as a badged sniper of New Zealand Army. Historically less than half make the grade. In 2020 just six passed.

Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/the-art-of-seeing-through-the-tussock/
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Category : Defence
Author: NZDF

Gulf Conflict 1991 || 30 years ago, on 17 January 1991 - two days after the deadline set in the United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 - the Gulf War Coalition launched a campaign which began the offensive codenamed Operation Desert Storm.

Category : Defence
Author: Nighthawk

2019 - 2020 was a busy year for the NZDF and MoD with various procurements and upgrades for our defence for. The report shows a lot more about the what was going on behind the scenes including any impact Covid-19 had on the said project. 

Article: http://www.nighthawk.nz
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Category : Defence
Author: Shipyard, Royal Australian Navy (RAN)

Prototyping is underway at the Osborne shipyard in Adelaide in preparation for work to start on Royal Australian Navy’s Hunter-class frigates.

The Australian Department of Defence Capability Acquisition and Sustainment Group (CASG)’s first assistant secretary ships Sheryl Lutz said five prototype blocks would be built in the prototyping phase to test the shipyard’s production systems, develop the facilities and ensure the workforce was trained and ready to build the Hunter-class frigates.

Article: https://defpost.com/preparation-underway-to-build-royal-australian-navys-new-hunter-class-frigates/
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Category : Defence
Author: Reuters

AIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) -Two U.S. warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway.

China, which claims democratically run Taiwan as its own territory, has been angered by stepped-up U.S. support for the island, including arms sales and sailing warships through the Taiwan Strait, further souring Beijing-Washington relations.

Article: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-security-usa-idUSKBN2942HJ
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Category : Defence
Author: Thomas Manch

New Zealand’s place in the world is increasingly threatened as the post-World War II international order collapses and a power shift between the United States and China squeezes countries in the middle.

This picture of a “turbulent” world comes from newly released briefings to new Cabinet ministers written by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT), the Defence Force, and intelligence agencies the Security Intelligence Service (SIS) and the Government Security Communications Bureau (GCSB).

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/123706960/government-briefings-say-threats-to-new-zealand-grow-with-a-receding-world-order
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