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In the wake of last week’s AUKUS announcement, decisions around what to replace New Zealand’s Anzac class frigates with have become immediately more important, writes Dr Wayne Mapp.
Many readers will know that most of my Line of Defence articles this year have referred to the need to renew the naval fleet, most notably the Anzac frigates. I have been postulating that an all OPV fleet might be the answer, predicated on the basis that our prime interest is the South West Pacific, from Antarctica to the Equator. In particular I have mentioned the ice capable Harry DeWolf as a credible option.
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Read more: Wayne Mapp: Reflections on the implications of AUKUS for New Zealand’s Navy
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2021/09/20/wayne-mapp-what-does-aukus-mean-for-new-zealand/
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Hobart based boat builder PFG announced it has secured a contract valued at approximately $6 million with the New Zealand Defence Force to design and construct three 12.5 metre, high-speed Littoral Manoeuvre Craft (LMC). These watercraft, will be fully constructed from next generation boat building material, High Density Polyethylene (HDPE).
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Read more: PFG wins Royal New Zealand Navy contract
- Article: https://asiapacificdefencereporter.com/pfg-wins-royal-new-zealand-navy-contract/
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France has cancelled a meeting between Armed Forces Minister Florence Parly and her British counterpart planned for this week after Australia scrapped a submarine order with Paris in favour of a deal with Washington and London, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Read more: France cancels defence meeting with UK over submarine row, sources say
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/09/france-cancels-defence-meeting-with-uk-over-submarine-row-sources-say.html
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I am supposed to say whinging poms, not whinging frogs...
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China's level of anger at the new Aukus defence pact between Australia, the UK and the US was only to be expected.France's was not.
And Paris's dramatic recall of its ambassadors to Canberra and Washington at the weekend may be just the start of the impact.
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Read more: New Zealand could be the big winner of AUKUS fallout
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/09/geoffrey-miller-new-zealand-could-be-the-big-winner-of-aukus-fallout.html
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The defence chiefs of the members of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) had a crucial dialogue in June. The five states—Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom—reaffirmed their commitment to collaborate in conventional and non-conventional security domains to keep pace with the evolving challenges in the region. They also mulled over the FPDA Exercise Concept Directive 2021 and a 10-year roadmap for greater strategic and defence cooperation in training and preparedness to enhance their operational capacity and interoperability.
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Read more: The Five Power Defence Arrangements: time for the ‘quiet achiever’ to emerge
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/the-five-power-defence-arrangements-time-for-the-quiet-achiever-to-emerge/
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With the announcement recently that Australia will procure 8 nuclear-powered submarines and forming a new trilateral security group with the UK, and US called AUKUS. How has AUKUS changed the playing field in the geopolitical arena?
New Zealand was left out of the discussions and people pointing out that it is we are friends not Allies with the US, and we can no longer be trusted with security matters. New Zealand’s woeful attempts appeasing allies. Our sea blindness politicians, and our cosying up to the CCP due to trade. And that last one is important.
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Read more: How has AUKUS changed the playing field?
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ANALYSIS: The AUKUS partnership has New Zealand’s only formal defence ally, Australia, turning nuclear-powered. And it has highlighted a sizeable difference in military might.
Australia, with the AUKUS defence pact announced on Thursday, has thrown its chips in with the United States and United Kingdom, promising to acquire at least six nuclear-powered submarines and pile up missiles in the face of an increasingly strident China.
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- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/126413665/why-doesnt-new-zealand-have-submarines-aukus-highlights-pressing-military-question-for-government
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New Zealand is being labelled "a joke" on defence in the aftermath of its exclusion from the new AUKUS pact.
The defence pact between Australia, the US and the UK will formalise cooperation in the Indo-Pacific, and is seen as a counterweight to China's growing power in the region. Under the deal, the countries will share advanced technologies, including supplying nuclear-powered, but conventionally armed, submarines for the Royal Australian Navy.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/09/aukus-new-zealand-labelled-a-joke-after-nuclear-free-stance-blocks-australia-s-nuclear-powered-submarines.html
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So Canada wasn't invited either???
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