Category : Defence
Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — You fight with what you have, and the New Zealand Defence Force’s firepower is limited.

There are insufficient personnel to operate all the weapon systems in its inventory. Ships are mothballed, and although the first batch of new Bushmaster armored vehicles were delivered May 25 to Trentham Military Camp, Maj. Paul Napier of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps told Defense News that the Army lacks drivers.

Article: https://www.c4isrnet.com/interviews/2023/07/06/new-zealands-military-chief-talks-recruitment-drones-and-ukraine
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : News
Author: CNN

China's top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of "strategic autonomy" from the West and cooperate with Beijing to "revitalize Asia," amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/china-s-top-diplomat-wang-yi-urges-japan-south-korea-to-align-with-beijing-and-revitalise-asia.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : Short article
Author: Reuters

Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2023/07/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-limit-how-many-tweets-users-can-read.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : News
Author: Reuters

US CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/ukraine-invasion-armed-mutiny-in-russia-shows-damage-putin-has-done-to-country-cia.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : News
Author: Luke Malpass

Shanghai | ANALYSIS: When Chris Hipkins gobbled down his final sausage roll on a trip to China - yes you read that right - he had almost finished what has been a successful trip. There were salmon sausage rolls and cheesy ones. He can’t even escape them when he heads overseas.

Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/132458578/chris-hipkins-earns-chinas-praise--but-he-wont-want-it-all
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : News
Author: CNN

On Friday and Saturday, the world witnessed something it hadn't since 1991: military vehicles on the streets of Moscow, deployed to defend the Kremlin from what looked like a coup attempt.

Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/06/opinion-how-wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-s-mutiny-will-resonate-in-russia.html
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive
Category : Defence

An Australian force design oriented towards Distributed Maritime Operations poses questions for the design of NZ’s future fleet, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer.

Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2023/06/23/australian-defence-strategic-review-and-new-zealand/
:
Note from Nighthawk.NZ:

Star InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar InactiveStar Inactive

Subcategories

General Politics

General Defence Articles

Sciencey stuff

 

World News