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Instruction & Management
Being ready to share skills with the next generation, or utilising skills and knowledge to manage the organisation strategically, is a natural part of career progression in the New Zealand Defence Force.
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Aotearoa
HMNZS Aotearoa recently proved the capability to refuel ships at sea in an exercise with the Royal Australian Navy.
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COVID-19
On 19 March 2020, New Zealand closed its borders. On 9 April, the Prime Minister announced that a network of Managed Isolation and Quarantine Facilities (MIQFs) would be established, to bring citizens and residents home.
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Iraq
Our readiness for combat provides us the ability to train others for combat – building the capacity of partner forces. From 2015-2020 we worked with the Iraqi Security Forces, supporting them to train for operations against ISIS.
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Supporting people & communities
Our size, skills, equipment and training are geared for combat. But when you’re as large as the Navy, with highly skilled personnel and specialised assets, you end up being very valuable in a wide variety of other situations.
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Supporting people & communities
We stand ready and are here to help.
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Supporting people & communities
Our size, skills, equipment and training means we're geared for combat. But when you’re as large as the Air Force, with highly skilled personnel and specialised assets, you end up being very valuable in other emergency situations.
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Introducing the C-130J
In 2020 the New Zealand government signed a $1.5 billion deal for five new C-130J-30 Super Hercules planes. The current C-130H fleet dates back as far as 1965. A C-130J Super Hercules has a wingspan of 40 metres and weighs 34 tonnes. The aircraft is designed to operate from short or unprepared airstrips.
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Air Force
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Estate Regeneration
Over the next two decades we're undertaking a regeneration project like no other in New Zealand, with the biggest ever renewal of our Defence Force camps and bases now underway across the country.