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Author: Ministry of Defence

The New Zealand Defence Industry Strategy outlines a number of actions over the next four years to deliver capability faster, with resilience and support the implementation of the 2025 Defence Capability Plan. 

Article: https://www.defence.govt.nz/business-and-industry/defence-industry-strategy/
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Category : Defence
Author: Hon Judith Collins KC, Hon Chris Penk

Supporting New Zealand industry to deliver defence equipment and infrastructure while growing local businesses is behind a strategy launched today by Defence Minister Judith Collins and Associate Defence Minister Chris Penk.

Article: https://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/building-strong-and-resilient-defence-industry
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Category : Opinion
Author: Phil Pennington

A dronemaker says civilian and military aerospace sectors benefit each other and that is a good thing.

Protesters chained themselves outside the national aerospace conference in Christchurch on Wednesday and several were carried away by police.

Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/575335/military-and-civilian-aerospace-sectors-benefit-each-other-dronemaker
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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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