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The New Zealand Defence Industry Strategy outlines a number of actions over the next four years to deliver capability faster, with resilience and support the implementation of the 2025 Defence Capability Plan.
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Read more: Defence industry strategy
- Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/business-and-industry/defence-industry-strategy/
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- Category : Opinion
A dronemaker says civilian and military aerospace sectors benefit each other and that is a good thing.
Protesters chained themselves outside the national aerospace conference in Christchurch on Wednesday and several were carried away by police.
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Read more: Military and civilian aerospace sectors benefit each other - dronemaker
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575335/military-and-civilian-aerospace-sectors-benefit-each-other-dronemaker
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- Category : Analysis
Analysis: New Zealand has put space front and centre of its defence industrial strategy at the same time that US space weapons are in record demand from other countries.
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Read more: NZ defence strategy explores space weapons export potential
- Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575634/nz-defence-strategy-explores-space-weapons-export-potential
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- Category : Defence
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Two Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopters have flown from Australia to New Zealand on a two-day, record-breaking journey for the aircraft, which each carried two 1,100lb external fuel tanks, according to the service.
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Read more: New Zealand NH90 helicopters fly record distance across Tasman Sea
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/global/asia-pacific/2025/10/01/new-zealand-nh90-helicopters-fly-record-distance-across-tasman-sea/
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- Category : Defence
The just released New Zealand Defence Industry Strategy is clear that the government intends to fund and develop a home-grown defence industry. The ‘defence industry’ is better known as the weapons industry or arms trade.
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Read more: Will NZ Be A Country Of War Profiteers?
- Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2510/S00022/will-nz-be-a-country-of-war-profiteers.htm
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- Category : News
The recently released 2025 Defence Capability Plan (DCP) focuses largely on replacing existing assets but offers little genuine change. Rather than addressing New Zealand’s long-term defence requirements, it reads like a compromise between competing Services’ bids, mediated by bureaucrats, and assembled to meet the Government’s desire to increase military spending.
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Read more: In Depth: New Zealand Defence needs a Pacific-centric reset
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/03/new-zealand-defence-needs-pacific-reset/
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Modularity, flexibility, and the exploitation of autonomy should inform New Zealand’s maritime fleet renewal, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts ONZM.
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Read more: New Zealand’s maritime fleet renewal and the Pacific-centric reset
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/18/new-zealand-maritime-fleet-renewal-and-pacific-centric-reset/
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- Category : Defence
New Zealand Defence has just procured a capability in insufficient numbers due to budget constraints, and this leaves the NZDF with little resilience, writes former New Zealand Army Officer Graeme Doull.
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Read more: How did New Zealand end up buying only five MH-60R Seahawks?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/18/how-did-new-zealand-buy-only-five-seahawks/
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