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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A third of Royal New Zealand Navy ships are docked due to a shortage of sailors, causing a loss of “significant flexibility,” the service’s top officer told Defense News.
Last month, the 279-foot offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington became the third ship to enter a period of idleness, joining the Navy’s other offshore patrol vessel HMNZS Otago and one of the two remaining 180-foot inshore patrol vessels, HMNZS Hawea.
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Read more: How the New Zealand Navy plans to fix its sailor and ship shortfalls
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2023/01/04/how-the-new-zealand-navy-plans-to-fix-its-sailor-and-ship-shortfalls/
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The Royal Navy’s pursuit of capability adaptability should re-assure our own defence policy makers that modularity is worth investigating, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts.
Historically, navies have attempted to acquire combatant ships permanently equipped and trained to defeat threats in all dimensions. The escalating cost of such platforms is now forcing even the largest and most advanced navies to consider alternatives. As discussed in an earlier article (Modularity and the Shape of New Zealand’s Next Naval Fleet) published in Issue 22 of Line of Defence, the most promising of these alternatives is ‘capability modularity’.
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Read more: What our partners are doing to build future-focused navies
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2023/01/04/capability-adaptability-future-focused-navies/
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China renewed its threats today to attack Taiwan and warned that foreign politicians who interact with the self-governing island are "playing with fire".
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Read more: China renews threat against Taiwan as island holds drills
- Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/01/11/china-renews-threat-against-taiwan-as-island-holds-drills/
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A new strain of COVID-19 dubbed the Kraken variant is spreading rapidly across the world and health officials have released a list of 12 symptoms that may signal infection.
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Read more: Twelve symptoms of the new intensely transmissible COVID-19 Kraken variant
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Iran could be contributing to war crimes in Ukraine by providing drones to Russia, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday.
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Ukraine says Russia plans new mobilisation to 'turn tide of war', insists 'the terrorists must lose'
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was planning to call up more troops for a major new offensive, even as Moscow was facing some of its biggest internal criticism of the war over a strike that killed scores of fresh conscripts.
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The Government has decided not to force people travelling here from China to provide a negative pre-departure test, despite pressure from some epidemiologists.
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Read more: New Zealand experts worried as evasive COVID-19 'super variant' makes waves in US
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Life 100 years ago was a vastly different time to 2023.
Now, we have smartphones, a higher life expectancy, and a great deal more. But these parts of life we see as regular nowadays were to some extent predicted in 1923 by scientists and experts.
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