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A retired Orion has been pulled apart at Marlborough’s Base Woodbourne and will make its way to the Air Force Museum in Christchurch.
On Tuesday Airbus staff removed the fuselage and wings from the Lockheed P-3K2 Orion NZ4203, ready for transport to Wigram where it will be on public display.
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Read more: End of an era: Air force Orion takes a road trip from Woodbourne to Wigram
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/132874960/end-of-an-era-air-force-orion-takes-a-road-trip-from-woodbourne-to-wigram
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A campaign to have a soldier who died saving others on Mount Ruapehu recognised with New Zealand’s highest award for bravery has been denied by the prime minister.
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The Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) will officially retire the first of its Lockheed C-130H Hercules tactical transport aircraft this week.
Located at Base Auckland the RNZAF’s No. 40 Squadron, which operates a fleet of five C-130H aircraft, will hold a ceremony to mark to occasion on 12 February and a Squadron retirement function in the hangar the day before.
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Read more: End of an era: RNZAF retires first C-130H
- Article: https://www.australiandefence.com.au/defence/air/end-of-an-era-rnzaf-retires-first-c-130h
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The Royal New Zealand Navy’s maritime sustainment vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa, has sailed today from Auckland bound for South East Asia to participate in the Five Power Defence Arrangements Exercise Bersama Lima in Malaysia, alongside frigate HMNZS Te Mana.
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Read more: NZ Navy to participate in major South East Asia exercise
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/nz-navy-to-participate-in-major-south-east-asia-exercise/
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The last aircraft to join the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s latest fleet has hit the tarmac in Ōhakea.
All four Boeing P-8A Poseidon were lined up at the base on Friday marking the final chapter in what has been a five-year journey to bring the planes to New Zealand.
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Read more: P-8A Poseidon: Final aircraft joins maritime surveillance fleet
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300952255/p8a-poseidon-final-aircraft-joins-maritime-surveillance-fleet
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I read the recently released government documents on strategic foreign policy assessment, national security strategy, defence policy and strategy statement, future force design principles and the security threat environment – three times.
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Read more: Hybrid Interference – Cure Worse than the Disease?
- Article: https://unclas.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/hybrid-interference-cure-worse-than-the-disease/
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Our Royal New Zealand Air Force’s new P-8A Poseidon aircraft has been deployed on Operation Nasse for the first time.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand plans to create another intelligence agency to help the government more rapidly react to and better coordinate its response to security threats.
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Read more: New Zealand to create intel agency recommended over two years ago
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2023/08/10/new-zealand-to-create-intel-agency-recommended-over-two-years-ago/
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