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Author: Loren Thompson
Arms sales to overseas partners are a major tool of U.S. foreign policy. They are also a growing source of revenues for U.S. defense contractors, who have faced flat domestic demand in recent years due to congressionally mandated caps on Pentagon spending. When arms sales are done right, they can bolster regional security, strengthen alliances, lighten the warfighting burden on U.S. forces, improve the trade balance and create jobs in the U.S.
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Article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2017/09/19/why-foreign-military-sales-are-always-worth-less-than-the-published-number/#1a6c65d85d42
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Category: Defence
Author: SAAB

Defence and security company Saab has signed a contract to provide a complete communications system on board the Royal New Zealand Navy’s future fleet replenishment vessel, HMNZS Aotearoa.

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Article: https://saab.com/es/region/netherlands/news/news-and-press-releases/news-list/new-zealand-navy-chooses-saab-tacticall-for-future-communications-solution/
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Category: Defence
Author: Greg Colton

Last month a combined force from five allied nations, including a fleet of 33 warships and submarines, over 200 aircraft and more than 33,000 military personnel, defeated an ‘enemy force’ in 20 locations across northern Australia.

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Article: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/australia-us-and-nz-military-co-operation-augurs-well
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Author: Cole Schroeder

American mass communication specialist Cole Schroeder of the supercarrier USS Nimitz was recently granted the opportunity “to view life on the ocean from a New Zealander’s perspective,” boarding the Royal New Zealand Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha.

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Article: https://hanfordsentinel.com/lemoorenavynews/columns/an-exchange-of-perspective/article_e674bb98-67aa-56ac-a891-0d22c88d4ff3.html
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Category: Defence
Author: Euan Graham

In every crisis lies opportunity, so the saying goes. The collision of the guided missile destroyer (DDG) USS Fitzgerald with a Philippines-registered cargo ship, near Japan on 17 June, was a human tragedy, killing seven US sailors in circumstances that defy easy explanation, but which underline the hazards of everyday seamanship in the era of automation.

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Article: http://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/silver-fern-lining-fitzgerald-collision
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Category: Defence
Author: MICHAEL FIELD

Pacific state turns back to neighbor after cosying up with China, Russia

AUCKLAND -- A New Zealand naval ship will be deployed to Fiji for six months in May to help local forces patrol the 1.3 million square kilometer exclusive economic zone that has been plagued by illegal fishing and drug trafficking.

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Article: https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Fiji-enlists-New-Zealand-navy-to-help-patrol-seas2
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Author: NZ Herald

A Royal New Zealand Navy sailor has apologised for the shame he caused after drinking 24 beers and allegedly breaking into a US Navy house while stationed at Pearl Harbour.

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Article: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11752736
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Author: Jane's International Defence Review

After being plagued with issues that resulted in an early and extensive remediation programme to correct deficiencies, the RNZN multirole vessel HMNZS Canterbury is now proving its worth as an essential capability supporting a wide range of operational scenarios. Kate Tringham reports.

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Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/assets/Uploads/4568eed392/Canterbury-tales-re-told-RNZN-multirole-vessel-delivers.PDF
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