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Lance Corporal Alice Jensen, from Manawatū, is no stranger to the annual delivery of supplies by ship to Antarctica, having just been to the ice for a third time.
The first trip to Antarctica that the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s Flight Sergeant Mike Roberts took was as an air steward on a VIP flight in 1998, where he got a close-up look at ice that’s been around since the first humans migrated out of Africa.
“I’m going to have to call you back in about 10 minutes, we’ve just got an emperor penguin on the runway that we have to shoo away.”
The crew of HMNZS Taupo have assisted in a stormy night rescue of two yachties forced to abandon ship near Rangitoto Island in Auckland this morning.
The New Zealand Defence Force Primer explains what the NZDF does and why we do it and how the Government sets policy for using our skills. It covers how our sailors, soldiers, and aviators achieve operational success, our constitutional and legislative foundations, how we are organised and led, and how all the different parts of the NZDF work together generating, preparing, and deploying our personnel and capabilities.
The official information that was released as part of request OIA-2025-5336 about capability and readiness updates.
Stories and images from the 2025 Anzac Day commemorations.
The September issue of Navy Today is out now, with our cover celebrating nearly 30 years in print.
This issue will be the last one to be printed as a hard copy, with all three service magazines published in a digital format online from October.
In this issue, we congratulate HMNZS Canterbury going all-hands full-on with a training push to get more sailors qualified. We introduce our new Chief of Navy, and catch up with HMNZS Aotearoa’s adventures in South East Asia. An engineer takes charge of HMNZS Te Mana and we meet our specialist Uncrewed Aerial Systems people, freshly returned from a mission with the Royal Navy. A Navy couple relate their experiences over a long-term deployment as a family where the temperatures can be minus 30 degrees.
Our Navy's presence at the world's largest maritime exercise in Hawaii kicks off our Navy Today coverage for August, with HMNZS Aotearoa and our divers from HMNZS Matataua representing for New Zealand. HMNZS Manawanui concludes Pacific adventures, and we meet the new Commanders of HMNZS Taupo and HMNZS Wakefield. We profile five of our talented sailors and their careers, meet one of New Zealand's oldest Navy veterans at 104 and get a first look at the new design for the Navy officer's sword.
In our July edition we showcase the regeneration of frigate HMNZS Te Kaha as it builds up for its 2025 overseas deployments. HMNZS Matataua works with NZ Customs to intercept a drugs shipment attached to a ship's hull, while HMNZS Manawanui helps clear explosive remnants of war from a harbour in Vanuatu. HMNZS Taupo works with MPI to inspect fishing vessels in the South Islands and a team from HMNZS Ngapona travel to Ireland to help them kick-start their Inshore Patrol Vessels (purchased from New Zealand).