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Author: NZDF

The Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) NH90 helicopter fleet has just been updated with software and equipment that will now allow the aircraft to better integrate into New Zealand’s controlled airspace – and it was done in record time at Base Ohakea.

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Article: https://www.nzdf.mil.nz/media-centre/news/rnzaf-nh90-fleets-software-upgrade-a-world-first/
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Category: Politics
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Author: DEFSEC

New Zealand Defence Force recruits will now be kitted out in Norsewear socks made from traceable wool sourced from New Zealand farms and knitted at the company’s southern Hawke’s Bay factory.

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Article: https://defsec.net.nz/2025/05/15/win-for-kiwi-wool-norsewear-nzdf/
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Category : Opinion
Author: Russell Palmer

The government's $2 billion spend on new naval helicopters is being welcomed by experts, but the opposition says other problems need just as much focus.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/559902/navy-helicopter-upgrade-needed-after-seasprites-worked-to-the-bone-experts
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Category: Defence
Category : Defence
Author: Phil Pennington

The Defence Force (NZDF) says it is aware the United States wants to expand options for rocket launches, but that it has nothing to do with it.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/561384/us-plans-to-expand-rocket-launch-options-nothing-to-do-with-nz-defence-force
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Category: Defence
Category : Analysis
Author: Phil Pennington

Heading into next week's Budget, Judith Collins would not want any more money for weapons, even if it was offered to her.

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Article: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/561172/a-surplus-of-defence-riches-but-lack-of-skill-and-experience
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Category : News
Author: Jonathan Milne

Analysis: The USS Buchanan was turned back. The USS Great Bridge was turned back. So what changed to allow warships like USS Blue Ridge into NZ?

Here’s one for the ship spotters. One of the biggest American warships ever to visit New Zealand sailed into Wellington on Friday morning.

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Article: https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/05/16/how-the-grand-old-dame-of-the-us-navy-navigated-nzs-nuke-free-policy/
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Author: Stuff

The US 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) has arrived in Wellington, marking its first visit to New Zealand and its capital city.

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Article: https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360691054/us-navy-fleet-flagship-arrives-first-new-zealand-visit
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 Not to be confused with the Blue Ridge Ferry.  wink

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Category: Defence
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Author: Ministry of Defence

A VAMTAC ST5 prototype vehicle is scheduled to land in New Zealand shortly, following its transport from the UROVESA military vehicle factory in Galicia, Spain, on board one of the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s new Hercules C-130J-30 aircraft.

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Article: https://defence.govt.nz/news/vamtac-vehicle-prototype-on-way-to-new-zealand/
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