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Lieutenant Jo Brook was in love the second she left the deck on her first helicopter flight and soon she will be the first woman in the Royal New Zealand Navy to qualify as a helicopter pilot.
Brook didn’t set out to be a trail-blazer. She was thinking about her future in the Navy after nearly six years as a Warfare Officer, and was intrigued to learn helicopter pilot was a potential career option for her specialisation.
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Read more: Love at first flight for Navy's first female helicopter pilot
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300215663/love-at-first-flight-for-navys-first-female-helicopter-pilot
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The JAS-39 Gripen and the Gripen e or Gripen ng have been covered in 2 series: one about the Gripen story and the Gripen as a fighter; the second about its design. This video collects together the first 3 episodes that describe the Gripen and its configuration.
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Read more: JAS-39 Gripen - The Long Story
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The more I learn about this aircraft the more I like it. One of the cheaper options to buy as well as to fly that can and does keep up with the big boys.
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) continues to produce soldiers, sailors and airmen and women of the highest calibre globally. This hasn't changed throughout the years. We must keep the focus on the positives as the foundation on how to provide solutions for any veteran issues we have.
In order to do that, we must understand the future focus of the NZDF and celebrate our country, our defence force and its people, because we continue to punch above our weight globally, in and out of the uniform.
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Read more: Veteran Chats - Hon. Ron Mark New Zealand Minister of Defence and Veterans
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSI1xdZW6y4
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In November, the Prime Minister announced surprise plans to develop a new Type 32 Frigate to expand the Royal Navy fleet. This was unexpected, so what actually is the Type 32 Frigate?
The Royal Navy already has two new types of frigate on order, the Type 26 and the Type 31 Frigate.
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Read more: What is the Type 32 frigate?
- Article: https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/what-is-the-type-32-frigate/
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Read more: The Five Power Defence Arrangements at 50: what next?
- Article: https://www.iiss.org/blogs/analysis/2020/12/five-power-defence-arrangements
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This morning, Defence Minister Linda Reynolds announced that the replacement for the much-troubled ‘Aussie Tiger’ armed reconnaissance helicopter (ARH) would be the Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian. Australia will acquire 29 of the advanced Apaches from 2025, at a cost of A$4.5 billion, to replace 22 Tigers. The minister stated:
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Read more: Australia chooses Apache as Tiger helicopter replacement
- Article: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-chooses-apache-as-tiger-helicopter-replacement/
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You have two hours to move within 200 metres of the observers and fire your first blank round. You start about one kilometre out, give or take. You cannot be seen at all. If you are seen, you fail.
Each year only 12 soldiers devote six weeks of their lives honing skills which they hope will match the exacting standards required to emerge out the other side as a badged sniper of New Zealand Army. Historically less than half make the grade. In 2020 just six passed.
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Read more: The art of seeing through the tussock
- Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/nzdf/news/the-art-of-seeing-through-the-tussock/
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Gulf Conflict 1991 || 30 years ago, on 17 January 1991 - two days after the deadline set in the United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 - the Gulf War Coalition launched a campaign which began the offensive codenamed Operation Desert Storm.
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- Article: https://www.facebook.com/NZDefenceForce/posts/3565837626786691
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Thank you for your service...
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