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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Two Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopters have flown from Australia to New Zealand on a two-day, record-breaking journey for the aircraft, which each carried two 1,100lb external fuel tanks, according to the service.
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Read more: New Zealand NH90 helicopters fly record distance across Tasman Sea
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/10/01/new-zealand-nh90-helicopters-fly-record-distance-across-tasman-sea/
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The just released New Zealand Defence Industry Strategy is clear that the government intends to fund and develop a home-grown defence industry. The ‘defence industry’ is better known as the weapons industry or arms trade.
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Read more: Will NZ Be A Country Of War Profiteers?
- Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2510/S00022/will-nz-be-a-country-of-war-profiteers.htm
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The Defence Minister wants to see New Zealand develop lethal weapons for international export through the help of tech companies.
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Read more: Government unveils strategy for the defence industry
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry
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The recently released 2025 Defence Capability Plan (DCP) focuses largely on replacing existing assets but offers little genuine change. Rather than addressing New Zealand’s long-term defence requirements, it reads like a compromise between competing Services’ bids, mediated by bureaucrats, and assembled to meet the Government’s desire to increase military spending.
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Read more: In Depth: New Zealand Defence needs a Pacific-centric reset
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/03/new-zealand-defence-needs-pacific-reset/
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In the wake of sinking the $100 million HMNZS Manawanui survey ship off Samoa 11 months ago, the Navy is spending $35 million to start up a ship not used for three years.
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Read more: 'Obsolete systems' part of $35m reboot to fill in for sunk navy ship
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573956/obsolete-systems-part-of-35m-reboot-to-fill-in-for-sunk-navy-ship
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The OPV's were due for a mid-life upgrade anyway and no extra money is being spent on it as it is all coming from the current budget so...
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Modularity, flexibility, and the exploitation of autonomy should inform New Zealand’s maritime fleet renewal, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts ONZM.
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Read more: New Zealand’s maritime fleet renewal and the Pacific-centric reset
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/18/new-zealand-maritime-fleet-renewal-and-pacific-centric-reset/
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Fresh details have been revealed about FBI director Kash Patel's secretive trip to New Zealand – including who he met, what he did and the estimated cost to taxpayers.
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Read more: Inside the hush-hush visit that brought Trump's FBI boss Kash Patel to NZ
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/23/inside-the-hush-hush-visit-that-brought-trumps-fbi-boss-kash-patel-to-nz/
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New Zealand Defence has just procured a capability in insufficient numbers due to budget constraints, and this leaves the NZDF with little resilience, writes former New Zealand Army Officer Graeme Doull.
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Read more: How did New Zealand end up buying only five MH-60R Seahawks?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/18/how-did-new-zealand-buy-only-five-seahawks/
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