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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — You fight with what you have, and the New Zealand Defence Force’s firepower is limited.
There are insufficient personnel to operate all the weapon systems in its inventory. Ships are mothballed, and although the first batch of new Bushmaster armored vehicles were delivered May 25 to Trentham Military Camp, Maj. Paul Napier of the Royal New Zealand Armoured Corps told Defense News that the Army lacks drivers.
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Read more: New Zealand’s military chief talks recruitment, drones and Ukraine
- Article: https://www.c4isrnet.com/interviews/2023/07/06/new-zealands-military-chief-talks-recruitment-drones-and-ukraine
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China's top diplomat has urged Japan and South Korea to foster a sense of "strategic autonomy" from the West and cooperate with Beijing to "revitalize Asia," amid rising tensions between China and the two neighboring American allies.
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Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.
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Read more: Elon Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/technology/2023/07/elon-musk-says-twitter-will-limit-how-many-tweets-users-can-read.html
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US CIA Director William Burns said on Saturday that the armed mutiny by mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a challenge to the Russian state that had shown the corrosive effect of President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine.
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Read more: Ukraine invasion: Armed mutiny in Russia shows damage Putin has done to country
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/07/ukraine-invasion-armed-mutiny-in-russia-shows-damage-putin-has-done-to-country-cia.html
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Three of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s four new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft are now available for operations.
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Read more: Air Force's new fleet of Poseidon aircraft present and ready for duty
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/300918317/air-forces-new-fleet-of-poseidon-aircraft-present-and-ready-for-duty
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Shanghai | ANALYSIS: When Chris Hipkins gobbled down his final sausage roll on a trip to China - yes you read that right - he had almost finished what has been a successful trip. There were salmon sausage rolls and cheesy ones. He can’t even escape them when he heads overseas.
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Read more: Hipkins earns China's praise - but he won't want it all
- Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/wellington/132458578/chris-hipkins-earns-chinas-praise--but-he-wont-want-it-all
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On Friday and Saturday, the world witnessed something it hadn't since 1991: military vehicles on the streets of Moscow, deployed to defend the Kremlin from what looked like a coup attempt.
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Read more: How Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny will resonate in Russia
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world/2023/06/opinion-how-wagner-chief-yevgeny-prigozhin-s-mutiny-will-resonate-in-russia.html
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An Australian force design oriented towards Distributed Maritime Operations poses questions for the design of NZ’s future fleet, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer.
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- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2023/06/23/australian-defence-strategic-review-and-new-zealand/
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