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Defence Minister Ron Mark is hopeful China "adheres to openness and transparency" like New Zealand, as the Defence Force warns against "geostrategic competition" in the Pacific.
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Read more: Defence Minister Ron Mark hopes China 'adheres to openness and transparency like we do'
- Article: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2019/10/defence-minister-ron-mark-hopes-china-adheres-to-openness-and-transparency-like-we-do.html
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New Zealand Defence Force in action, to the music of Hell March
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Read more: New Zealand Military - HELL MARCH
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf0JGLXSmWQ
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The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) today paid tribute to thousands of its personnel who served under the United Nations flag as it marked the International Day of UN Peacekeepers.
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Read more: Kiwis keeping the Peace
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxMv5nIQbQ
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AT RIMPAC 2016 TE KAHA tested its live firing combat capabilities. During a live firing SINKEX (Sink Exercise) TE KAHA got its turn to attack a decommissioned US ship, giving the crew a chance to launch a Sea Sparrow missile against the ship.
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Read more: HMNZS TE KAHA Goes Live
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNOBGJmXlE
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Browning .50 calibre machine gun shoot at dusk and night aboard a New Zealand Warship HMNZS Te Mana
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Read more: .50 calibre machine gun shoot at dusk
- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXcSYQSofw
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The key foreign policy test for the New Zealand government during the next two years, writes former Defence Minister Wayne Mapp, is whether New Zealand can maintain the balance of its relationships with China and the United States.
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Read more: New Zealand’s China Challenge
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2019/02/20/china-challenge/
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According to Ross Browne, Director of Triplex Consulting and a former commercial advisor to the NZDF, Defence needs to dramatically simplify its operating model. Commercialising some suitable non-tactical capabilities, he writes, offers the chance to do just that.
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Read more: ‘Fee for capability’ the way to fly for RNZAF?
- Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2018/11/10/fee-for-capability/
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The School of Artillery has been out in Waiouru for Exercise Hellfire, which is designed to test the skills of our people who are on either the Young Officer course, Command Systems Sergeants course or the Targeting Bombardiers course. 16 Field Regiment, Royal New Zealand Artillery were there supporting the live fire phase of the exercise with the L119 Light Gun and the 81mm Mortar. Check out what they got up to.
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- Article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-t-qDDo09g
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