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The crew of HMAS Hobart used a replenishment-at-sea exercise to pass gifts to the crew of the Royal New Zealand Navy’s newest ship, HMNZS Aotearoa, in a show of camaraderie.
Navy’s guided missile destroyer rendezvoused with Aotearoa off the coast of Sydney on March 1.
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Read more: Tim Tams cap off exercise with NZ ship
- Article: https://news.defence.gov.au/international/tim-tams-cap-exercise-nz-ship
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Australia's top military officer has come under fire for suggesting first-year cadets be less attractive and avoid going out after midnight if they want to avoid being sexually assaulted.
The Canberra Times reports Defence chief Angus Campbell told officers in training to avoid "the four A's" - alcohol, out after midnight, alone and attractive.
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- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2021/03/aussie-military-officer-tells-young-cadets-to-stop-being-attractive-to-avoid-being-assaulted.html
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WATCH the Royal New Zealand's Navy's ship HMNZS Aotearoa and her crew have conducted their first successful Replenishment at Sea trials when they met up with the Australian Navy ships HMAS Parramatta and HMAS Hobart off Australia’s east coast.
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Read more: HMNZS Aotearoa first successful RAS
- Article: https://twitter.com/NZDefenceForce/status/1366966043961225216
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Melanie Huata-Lucas - who last year became the first representative of the Royal New Zealand Navy to have a moko kauae - says she hopes to encourage other wahine Māori sailors to be confident in their identity.
The 32-year-old received her moko kauae after 13 years of service with the Navy as a sailor and events co-ordinator. She is now transitioning into a new role as marae events and protocol manager for the Navy.
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Read more: Māori woman first Royal NZ Navy representative to have moko kauae
- Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/maori-woman-first-royal-nz-navy-representative-to-have-moko-kauae/GWVDKGBJZNMTBGBDCEFISX7KZY/
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The U.S. Air Force’s top officer wants the service to develop an affordable, lightweight fighter to replace hundreds of Cold War-vintage F-16s and complement a small fleet of sophisticated—but costly and unreliable—stealth fighters.
The result would be a high-low mix of expensive “fifth-generation” F-22s and F-35s and inexpensive “fifth-generation-minus” jets, explained Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Charles Brown Jr.
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Read more: The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted The F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed
- Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2021/02/23/the-us-air-force-just-admitted-the-f-35-stealth-fighter-has-failed/
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Airplanes have been a lot less common in the skies above New Zealand lately and even less common is seeing three of them flying at the same time.
On Wednesday Newshub was contacted by numerous people in Auckland wondering why three mysterious 'military looking' aircraft were circling the city.
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Read more: Mysterious military flights above Auckland explained
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/travel/2021/02/mysterious-military-flights-above-auckland-explained.html
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The navy will not have war-making frigates until at least the end of 2021, as a troubled upgrade of the two combat vessels continues.
Defence chief Air Marshal Kevin Short told a parliamentary select committee on Thursday that he was uncertain whether HMNZS Te Kaha would be fully operational by the end of 2021, having returned from being upgraded in Canada in December 2020.
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Read more: Navy will be without war-making frigates the end of 2021
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/124317389/navy-will-be-without-warmaking-frigates-the-end-of-2021
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OPINION: It was 6am on September 12, 2001, when my phone rang and Gerry Brownlee said “turn on the TV, the US is under attack”.
The Twin Towers had fallen. Later that morning we talked about what it meant. Was it like Pearl Harbour? We decided no, in these circumstances, international terrorists could not start a world war. But we knew the world had changed. New Zealand would have to stand with its traditional allies and partners.
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Read more: Two decades in Afghanistan: Was it worth it?
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300234467/two-decades-in-afghanistan-was-it-worth-it
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