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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 : Analysis
Author: RNZ Online

The Defence Minister wants to see New Zealand develop lethal weapons for international export through the help of tech companies.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/574893/government-unveils-strategy-for-the-defence-industry
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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 : News
Author: Phil Pennington

In the wake of sinking the $100 million HMNZS Manawanui survey ship off Samoa 11 months ago, the Navy is spending $35 million to start up a ship not used for three years.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/573956/obsolete-systems-part-of-35m-reboot-to-fill-in-for-sunk-navy-ship
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The OPV's were due for a mid-life upgrade anyway and no extra money is being spent on it as it is all coming from the current budget so...

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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 : News
Author: Craig McCulloch

Fresh details have been revealed about FBI director Kash Patel's secretive trip to New Zealand – including who he met, what he did and the estimated cost to taxpayers.

Article: https://www.1news.co.nz/2025/09/23/inside-the-hush-hush-visit-that-brought-trumps-fbi-boss-kash-patel-to-nz/
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