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Author: Robert Ayson

New Zealand's inability to contribute naval frigates to a US-led operation near Iran may seem embarrassing - but as Robert Ayson writes, it may actually demonstrate we don't need the vessels at all.

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Article: https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2019/08/23/767568/farewell-to-new-zealands-frigates
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Residents in Los Angeles and Orange County warned to check for symptoms after an infected NZ teen visited theme parks including Disneyland and Universal Studios earlier this month.

Californian health authorities have issued warnings to residents and visitors after a New Zealand teenager was found to have spent five days in the US state while infectious with measles. The reports come as both the US and New Zealand grapple with the worst outbreaks of measles for more than two decades, with scientists sounding the alarm about insufficient take-up of vaccination.

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Article: https://thespinoff.co.nz/science/25-08-2019/oh-great-new-zealand-might-have-just-given-disneyland-measles/
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Category: Defence
Author: Boris Jancic

Britain asked New Zealand whether it could help patrol the Strait of Hormuz following the seizure of oil tankers by Iran, but we didn't have any boats to send, the Minister of Defence says.

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Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12260633
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Category: Defence
Author: Robert Ayson
Australia has just announced that it will join the US-led mission to protect shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz against harassment by Iran. New Zealand not only seems unlikely to do the same. It seems unable. Defence Minister Ron Mark has said that "The bottom line [is] that I can barely struggle to keep two P3s [surveillance aircraft] flying ... I just don't see that we have any spare capability right now to engage in that kind of a mission."
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Article: http://www.incline.org.nz/home/where-are-the-frigates
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Author: seawaves

August 14, 2019 – The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) took time in early August to conduct professional exchanges while off Samoa and in American Samoa.

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Article: https://seawaves.com/2019/08/14/uscg-rnzn-conduct-professional-exchanges-during-operations-in-oceania/
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Category: Defence
Author: LINE OF DEFENCE MAGAZINE

Defence Minister Ron Mark has announced on 17 August that Tranche Two of the Network Enabled Army programme has been approved and will commence this year.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2019/08/17/network-enabled-army-two/
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Author: Nathan Gain

Delivered under a US$22 million contract to enhance the nation’s airborne anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability, this is the first time the technology has been installed on P-3 Orion aircraft anywhere in the world.

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Article: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2019/08/boeing-completes-upgrade-of-rnzaf-p-3k2-orion-mpas/
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Author: ADM

Boeing recently upgraded the Royal NZ Air Force’s (RNZAF) fleet of six P-3K2 Orion aircraft with new acoustics processing and training simulation technology.

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Article: http://nighthawk.nz/index.php?option=com_content&view=form&layout=edit&a_id=0&Itemid=153
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