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Both of ANZAC's frigates are currently over in Canada getting an extensive midlife upgrade. So what are the upgrades our frigates are actually getting?
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Defence giant Babcock is on the cusp of clinching a lucrative contract to build a new generation of Royal Navy Type 31e frigates, according to industry sources.
The Devonport Dockyard operator is leading a consortium of key players under the umbrella name Arrowhead 400 on behalf of the £1.25billion deal.
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Read more: Royal Navy Type 31e frigate build contract worth £1.25bn set to be awarded to Babcock
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With an inquiry into claims of a military cover-up over deaths in Afghanistan set to wrap up within months, a new report argues New Zealand needs to better track, and prevent, civilian harm in conflicts.
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Read more: Is NZ selling civilians short in our military conflicts?
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The New Zealand Defence Force says it is preparing court martial proceedings against a soldier accused of several assault charges.
In a media advisory today, the military said the court martial will sit on September 23 at Burnham Military Camp near Christchurch.
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Read more: NZDF to conduct court martial of soldier accused of assault charges
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A reunion - twenty years in the making.
In 1999, Navy Captain Shaun Fogarty was deployed to East Timor as a military liaison officer with the United Nations.
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Read more: Defence force in Timor-Leste: ‘A strong desire to help’
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So the Defence Capability Plan 2019 was released in June 2019 it covers the defence spending out to about 2030 of what type new equipment the NZDF will receive, although not saying exactly what they will buy for example a 2nd enhanced sealift vessel for RNZN but only basically say it's capability, not what the actual vessel is or where they will get it built or even the exact style of the vessel. There are many options from LPD's too small LHD's.
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Read more: Options for the NZDF and RNZN 2nd enhanced Sealift vessel
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Read more: The Cost and Benefit of Frigates
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In a recent Incline post titled ‘Where are the Frigates?’ Professor Robert Ayson notes, quite correctly, that the frigates currently undergoing refit in Canada represent ‘no small portion of New Zealand’s modest capacity to project military power.’ He then asks, ‘if New Zealand can have a period of months when it does without that capacity in its entirety, would the lights really go out if there were no frigates at all?’
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Read more: Keeping the Lights On: The Need for New Zealand to Increase Its Maritime Capability
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