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THE NEXT major defence project on the books after the C-130J Hercules and the Boeing P-8A Poseidons are replacements for the RNZN’s two Anzac Class frigates Te Mana and Te Kaha. While these are due to remain in service until late in the next decade, planning is under way.
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Read more: Australians hope NZ will buy Hunter class frigates
- Article: https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/australians-hope-nz-will-buy-hunter-class-frigates-but-size-and-price-will-come-into-defence-considerations/
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New Zealand Defence Force firefighters are currently working in Australia to help control bushfires spreading across New South Wales and Queensland.
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Read more: NZ Defence firefighters on Oz bushfire front lines – ADF cites OH&S
- Article: https://www.contactairlandandsea.com/2019/11/26/new-zealand-defence-firefighters-on-australian-bushfire-front-lines/
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Naval opinion is firming on the next class of frigate to replace the RNZN’s two Anzac Class frigates Te Kaha and Te Mana which are scheduled to be retired within 10 years under the Defence Capability plans.
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Read more: Navy firms its thinking about frigate replacements
- Article: https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2019/11/25/navy-firms-its-thinking-about-frigate-replacements/
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Military brass from China, the US, Australia and New Zealand convened at SkyCity to simulate the evacuation of a Pacific island.
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Read more: Green MP questions why $16,000 military exercise held at SkyCity
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/117557713/green-mp-questions-why-16000-military-exercise-held-at-skycity
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With the scaffolding gone, HMNZS TE KAHA reveals her new superstructure to workers in Victoria Shipyard in Esquimalt. TE KAHA, sitting beside HMNZS TE MANA, departed New Zealand on 9 February 2018, as the first of the two frigates to start her Frigate System Upgrade in Canada.
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Read more: TE KAHA’s new look.
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WASHINGTON, November 20, 2019 - The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to New Zealand of five (5) C-130J aircraft and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.4 billion. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency delivered the required certification notifying Congress of this possible sale today.
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Read more: New Zealand – C-130J Aircraft - Media Release
- Article: https://www.dsca.mil/sites/default/files/mas/new_zealand_19-69.pdf
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Commander Stephen Lenik RNZN is the Naval Adviser in Canberra to the New Zealand Defence Force. The Australian Naval Institute and the University of New South Wales Canberra jointly held the 2019 Goldrick Seminar at the Australian Defence Force Academy on 18 September 2019. This seminar was supported by the Royal Australian Navy’s Sea Power Centre.
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Read more: Current National Perspective - NZ - CDR Stephen Lenik
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhP35bbhYRI
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For the second time in living memory, the West has lost strategic control of the South China Sea (SCS). The first time was 1940-41, when Imperial Japan obtained strategic dominance of the SCS by occupying French Indochina.
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- Article: http://www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutlook/chinese-strategic-control-of-the-south-china-sea-maritime-trade-implications-for-australia/
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