STORY📰 Private Matchil Du Plessis is studying towards a Bachelor of IT, while serving in the #NZArmy Reserve Force with Otago/Southland Company, 2nd/4th Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment.

STORY📰 Multi-role logistics vessel HMNZS Canterbury has arrived in #Wellington for the fourth time this year as part of its transportation duties to and from Exercise Talisman Sabre in #Australia.

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STORY📰 The 1st Command Support Regiment (1CSR) has hosted a Five Eyes Tactical Land Electronic Warfare Conference at Burnham Military Camp this month.

STORY📰 The #NZArmy is using local technology as it explores the rapidly expanding field of drone warfare and tackling FPV (first-person view) technology with the capability for offensive strikes.

STORY📰 Straight out of high school, Ordinary Musician Aiden West’s musical career is off to a flying start with the #NZNavy Band.

NEWS📢 We are extending our participation in an international satellite-monitoring space awareness programme.

STORY📰 After almost seven months at sea conducting operations and exercises across the Middle East and Indo-Pacific, #NZNavy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha returned home today to an enthusiastic welcome by hundreds of the crew’s friends and whānau.

STORY📰 In an unusual twist of timing, #NZAirForce logistics specialist Corporal Mikaylah Lucinsky, from Manakau, near #Levin, recently deployed to #Guam on Exercise Mobility Guardian as a Leading Aircraftman but came home as a Corporal.

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NEWS📢 The New Zealand government is investing $2.7 billion towards the MH-60R Seahawk and Airbus A321XLR as preferred options to replace aging fleet assets.

NEWS📢 The #NZAirForce for the first time deployed its MC-12K King Air aircraft to #Fiji to conduct maritime surveillance patrols.

NEWS📢 The #NZAirForce's new 20,000 square metre state-of-the-art building at #BaseOhakea in the #Manawatū has officially been opened.

STORY📰 A contingent from various units within 1st (NZ) Brigade and Joint Support Group has concluded an exercise in Papua New Guinea, which included the first high explosive live fire training activity with the PNG Defence Force in more than 30 years.

STORY📰 A low-cost floating reflector to enable space-based synthetic aperture radar to detect people lost at sea is being developed by @AucklandUni scientists in collaboration with the New Zealand Defence Force.

STORY📰 Warfare Officer Ensign Alex Rendle from Devonport says he’s delighted to be at the forefront of a new chapter in #NZNavy history as he works with the Fijian Navy, piloting Uncrewed Surface Vehicles (USVs) monitoring suspicious activities.

STORY📰 What lies beneath? Hydrographers from HMNZS Matataua have conducted an underwater survey at @Zealandia to search for submerged hazards and shallows.

STORY📰 It was a cold arrival but a warm welcome for Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels JS Ise and JS Suzuname into #Wellington on 8 August.

READ📖 How we defend our country is becoming more dependent on activities in space. Explore the work of Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 62 Squadron and find out how our aviators are safeguarding life as we know it.

STORY📰 An ‘exceptional’ discovery of scant remains of around 30 First World War soldiers on a #Gallipoli battlefield has been followed up with a blessing service after their reburial.

STORY📰 @usairforce-led Exercise Mobility Guardian has provided an opportunity for #NZAirForce personnel to flex their skills in Guam.