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Around 2035 the RNZN's two ANZAC frigates will need replacing. What are New Zealand’s options. What will meet their needs and requirements. Now this is one of the hard this, as decisions we make today have to compatible for at last 30 years.
There already a few options that New Zealand could tap into. From the expensive to the more affordable options. The RNZN has been keeping an eye on various projects around the world already but officially the industry engagement is around 2023.
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Read more: RNZN future frigate options.
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Data is fast defining the geostrategic power of nation states and the nature of their societies, writes Nicholas Dynon. According to speakers at the NZDIA IDEAS 2020 event, this presents big challenges for New Zealand.
Humankind is moving in faster and in ever more connected ways towards a future in which data – the building blocks of information – will be the single most important measure of a nation’s geostrategic power. It’s a process that’s already begun.
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Read more: Information Domain: New Zealand in the age of information competition
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/12/20/information-competition/
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Crew on a Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) P-3K2 Orion have successfully completed maritime patrols in support of international efforts to monitor sanctions against North Korea, reporting vessels of interest and illicit ship-to-ship transfers to authorities.
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Read more: Third deployment enforcing sanctions against North Korea successfully completed
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/third-deployment-enforcing-sanctions-against-north-korea-successfully-completed/
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Amid trucks shifting metal and planes soaring through the sky, work to build a roost for the air force's newest birds has begun.
Piercing the stones with a shovel at Ōhakea air base, Defence Minister Peeni Henare on Tuesday signalled the start of the largest construction project the Defence Force has undertaken.
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Read more: Work starts on new home for Poseidon aircraft at Ōhakea base
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300184153/work-starts-on-new-home-for-poseidon-aircraft-at-hakea-base
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Boeing has been awarded a contract worth approximately NZ$150 million to provide P-8A Poseidon training for the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF).
The aircraft manufacturer was appointed by the United States Navy to work on a suite of training systems and courseware to prepare RNZAF aircrew and maintenance staff to safely and effectively operate and maintain the aircraft for decades to come.
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Read more: Boeing awarded multi-million dollar NZ Air Force training contract
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2020/12/boeing-awarded-multi-million-dollar-royal-new-zealand-air-force-training-contract.html
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Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha (F77) and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) conducted combined operations in the eastern Pacific, Dec. 8 through Dec. 9.
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Read more: New Zealand, U.S. Navies Operate Together in the Eastern Pacific
- Article: https://www.cpf.navy.mil/news.aspx/130780
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The New Zealand Ministry of Defence’s Nick Gillard MNZM and NZDF’s Group Captain Pete Franken introduce the New Zealand Information Domain Review and Information Domain Delivery Strategy at the NZDIA’s IDEAS 2020 Part Two.
According to Nick Gillard, Director Land Domain (and previously Director Information Domain) it is in the Defence Capability Plan 2019 that the concept of the information domain was mooted for the first time. Since then, Defence has launched the Information Domain Review (IDR) and the Information Domain Delivery Strategy (IDDS).
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Read more: Introducing the New Zealand Information Domain
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2020/12/05/introducing-new-zealand-information-domain/
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Today (PST), on the 79th Anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor, HMNZS Te Kaha sailed into the Harbor for a short logistics stop on her transit to New Zealand.
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Read more: HMNZS Te Kaha in Pearl Harbor
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