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The Ministry of Defence is testing the waters with the military maritime industry over a new ship to patrol the vast icy expanse between New Zealand and Antarctica.
The project is in its early stages, but planning documents indicate the ice-strengthened ship would cost between $300m and $600m.
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Read more: Defence Force launches new Southern Ocean patrol vessel project, price tag $300m+
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300310572/defence-force-launches-new-southern-ocean-patrol-vessel-project-price-tag-300m
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Pacific nuclear test veterans are encouraged their quest to gain a long-awaited apology for being exposed to radiation appears to have ministerial support.
Kiwi sailors on the decks of the HMNZS Rotoiti and HMNZS Pukaki witnessed atomic explosions and collected weather data during Operation Grapple, Britain’s Pacific nuclear testing programme of the 1950s.
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Read more: Nuclear test veterans encouraged quest for apology will succeed
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300309768/nuclear-test-veterans-encouraged-quest-for-apology-will-succeed
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The New Zealand Defence Force has issued a request for information on design and build solutions for an eventual ice-strengthened offshore patrol vessel that the Royal New Zealand Navy would operate in the Southern Ocean and Antarctic’s Ross Sea for at least four months per year.
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Read more: New Zealand is seeking industry info to build Antarctic patrol vessel
- Article: https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2021/05/13/new-zealand-is-seeking-industry-info-to-build-antarctic-patrol-vessel/
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New Zealand’s navy will join the United Kingdom's flagship aircraft carrier in a tour of the Indo-Pacific, including passing through the contested South China Sea, the defence minister says.
The HMS Queen Elizabeth departed Portsmouth, England, on Sunday for its maiden voyage. It will lead a carrier strike group that includes United States and Dutch navies on a tour of 40 countries, reaching India, East Asia, and the Pacific later this year.
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Read more: New Zealand to provide further support to UN North Korea sanctions
- Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/new-zealand-provide-further-support-un-north-korea-sanctions
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Read more: HMNZS Te Mana - Refit
- Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZNavy/photos/a.390631373008/10160844930563009/
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A Defence Force member traumatised on top secret operations should not be kicked out of the force for indecently assaulting two women, his lawyer says.
Corporal Benjamin Stewart, 40, now has post-traumatic stress disorder due to his service and treatment would likely have to come from mental health professionals with top secret clearance speaking to him in a secure environment, lawyer Michael Bott told a Court Martial Appeal Court hearing in Wellington on Monday.
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Read more: Defence Force member was harmed on top-secret ops, lawyer says
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/124687402/defence-force-member-was-harmed-on-topsecret-ops-lawyer-says
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Well I don't think I believe this so much... Captains table never accepted the defence of "I was pissed at the time." And being on a secret mission is just BS, and I would only believe secret if he was SAS and if he was SAS I doubt that he would have assaulted them... So I call BS.
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Read more: Final deployment lowers flag on NZDF’s time in Afghanistan
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/final-deployment-lowers-flag-on-nzdfs-time-in-afghanistan/
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