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Category : News
Author: Ministry of Defence

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. 

Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/business-and-industry/defence-industry-strategy/
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Category : Opinion
Author: Phil Pennington

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.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575335/military-and-civilian-aerospace-sectors-benefit-each-other-dronemaker
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Category : Analysis
Author: Phil Pennington

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.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/575634/nz-defence-strategy-explores-space-weapons-export-potential
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Category : Defence
Author: Nick Lee-Frampton

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.

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
Author: Peace Action Wellington

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.

Article: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2510/S00022/will-nz-be-a-country-of-war-profiteers.htm
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Category : News
Author: DEFSEC

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.

Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/03/new-zealand-defence-needs-pacific-reset/
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Category : Defence
Author: Andrew Watts

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.

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.

Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/09/18/how-did-new-zealand-buy-only-five-seahawks/
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