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- Category : News
But frigates, destroyers are seen as lacking, with Beijing’s warships expected in Australasia more often.
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Read more: P-8a's worked overtime during nearby Chinese naval drills
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/03/28/aussie-spy-planes-worked-overtime-during-nearby-chinese-naval-drills/
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
The main fuss was the very limited notice of the live firing not that they sent ships...
- Category : News
New Zealand is unable to do major servicing of its new maritime patrol and submarine-hunting planes so is sending the work to Australia.
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Read more: Defence Force can't service Poseidon planes, sends them to Australia instead
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/556423/defence-force-can-t-service-poseidon-planes-sends-them-to-australia-instead
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- Note from Nighthawk.NZ:
I am pretty sure that was always the plan. Not quite sure what RNZ was trying to push on the issue. But the article does however highlight the crisis with personnel numbers.
- Category : Analysis
The Defence Force says it will be learning about "human-machine integration" - military robots - in a big exercise it is now on with the US Army.
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Read more: Military robots and thinking trucks - the learning curve ahead for NZDF
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545571/military-robots-and-thinking-trucks-the-learning-curve-ahead-for-nzdf
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- Category : Defence
New Zealand has joined military exercises in the Californian desert testing the world's most lethal drones, even as the Pentagon moves to fully embrace AI.
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Read more: The future of warfare: Killer drones and AI decision making
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/545258/the-future-of-warfare-killer-drones-and-ai-decision-making
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- Category : News
President Trump has been in office for nearly two months. In that time, he has certainly upset the status quo. In many respects he has done just as he said he would do during the presidential campaign.
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Read more: Wayne Mapp: Will we invest in the capability to protect our Future?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/03/12/wayne-mapp-protecting-our-future/
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- Category : Defence
Severe weather events have the New Zealand Defence Force carrying out exercises in a forest near Bulls to prepare medics for real-life scenarios in disaster relief operations.
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Read more: NZDF prepares medics for disaster relief amid severe weather events
- Article: https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/news/lower-north-island/nzdf-exercises-in-bulls-to-ready-medics-for-extreme-weather-events/
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- Category : News
The deaths of three military veterans by suspected suicide over just three weeks has one support group trying to crowd-source similar cases to plug a data hole and come up with a system that will show the extent of self-harm among those who served.
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- Article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/veteran-suicide-three-in-three-weeks-but-no-database-to-track-deaths-and-no-idea-how-bad-it-is/GJGP6L7VLNG4XGAQIUV3WNFH5Y/%3F
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- Category : Defence
Now is a good time to consider building on our defence relationship with Canada, writes retired New Zealand Army Lieutenant Colonel and director and co-founder of Latent, Josh Wineera.
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Read more: Canadian technology helps New Zealand Navy track Chinese warships
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/03/12/canadian-technology-helps-nz-navy-track-chinese-ships/
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