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NZDF Receives Awards for Search and Rescue Missions
Thursday, 11 May 2017, 9:25 am | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has been recognised for saving the lives of five people in two search and rescue missions carried out last year. More >>
Air Force Band Marks 80th Birthday
Tuesday, 9 May 2017, 1:27 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Eight decades after its first tour of duty, the Air Force Band is winging its way back home to Wellington for its 80th anniversary celebrations. More >>
NZDF Helps Train More Iraqi Troops for Offensive
Friday, 28 April 2017, 1:41 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
A combined New Zealand and Australian task group will be training about 2000 Iraqi Security Forces in the next fortnight as the Iraqi military continue the campaign to expel Daesh from their country. More >>
NZDF Finds Missing Tongan Fisherman Safe But Sunburned
Tuesday, 25 April 2017, 8:53 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has found the Tongan fisherman missing since last weekend safe but sunburned, adrift in an inflatable life raft off the island of Eua. More >>
NZDF Searches for Tongan Fisherman in Distress
Monday, 24 April 2017, 2:57 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has sent a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3K2 Orion aircraft to search for a Tongan fisherman whose boat suffered engine failure while fishing off the main island of Tongatapu on Saturday. More >>
Remembrance for Navy Chaplain on Western Front
Monday, 24 April 2017, 12:00 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Chaplain Pete Olds has officiated in Anzac Day services in China, Timor and New Caledonia and New Zealand, and now he has added France and Belgium to the list. More >>
‘Always Take the Weather with You’ – an Anzac Garden in Iraq
Friday, 21 April 2017, 12:38 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
In the heart of Iraq, surrounded by concrete and dust, one New Zealand Army soldier is protecting his Anzac counterparts and nurturing a garden he has made. More >>
Further Investigations into Helicopter Engine Issue
Friday, 21 April 2017, 9:26 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Following the emergency landing of a Royal New Zealand Air Force NH90 helicopter near Blenheim on Sunday, the RNZAF has been working hard to understand the technical issues involved. More >>
HMNZS Te Kaha Plays Key Role in Southeast Asia Exercise
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 1:58 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) frigate HMNZS Te Kaha and its Commanding Officer will play a leading role in a three-week warfighting exercise held by the world’s second-oldest military partnership. More >>
NZDF Engineers Hard at Work in Hot And Cold
Tuesday, 18 April 2017, 2:36 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
From the extreme cold of Antarctica to the heat of Sinai Peninsula, New Zealand Defence Force engineers are proving their ability to excel in any conditions. More >>
NZDF Helps Yachtie in Distress
Friday, 14 April 2017, 3:44 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) has found the yachtsman who activated his emergency beacon yesterday afternoon about 1600 kilometres east of the Chatham Islands. More >>
NZDF Searches for Yacht in Distress
Friday, 14 April 2017, 3:43 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) is helping search for a yacht that activated its emergency beacon yesterday afternoon about 1600 kilometres east of the Chatham Islands. More >>
Skytrain Comes to the South
Thursday, 13 April 2017, 12:37 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Personnel from the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and the New Zealand Army are headed for Base Woodbourne, near Blenheim, to take part in Exercise Skytrain from 18-27 April. More >>
Patience Pays Off for RNZAF Trainee Pilot
Tuesday, 11 April 2017, 11:08 am | New Zealand Defence Force
Royal New Zealand Air Force trainee pilot Paul Robinson’s patience has been rewarded as he takes to the skies most days in the force’s new T-6C Texan II aircraft. More >>
‘Aotearoa’ the Name Chosen for Navy’s Largest Ship
Monday, 10 April 2017, 12:14 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) has announced that the name of its newest and biggest ship will be HMNZS Aotearoa. Construction of the new 24,000-tonne vessel, the largest ship ever operated by the RNZN, will start next year, for delivery in January 2020. More >>
NZDF Sends More Troops to Edgecumbe
Friday, 7 April 2017, 4:41 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force sent 23 more soldiers this afternoon to help man cordons in Edgecumbe, which has been engulfed by floodwater after heavy rain on Thursday. More >>
NZDF Steps up Assistance to Flood-Stricken Whanganui
Wednesday, 5 April 2017, 4:10 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) sent an additional 25 staff to Whanganui this afternoon to help evacuate residents, fill sandbags, check on residents in flooded areas and man cordons. More >>
NZDF Delivery a Boost for Scientific Work in the Kermadecs
Friday, 31 March 2017, 1:03 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Scientific work in the Kermadec Islands by three government agencies has received a boost following the delivery this week of about 50 tonnes of supplies by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF). More >>
Press Conference on Operation Burnham
Monday, 27 March 2017, 5:42 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General (LTGEN) Tim Keating & Director of Defence Legal Services, Colonel Lisa Ferris More >>
NZDF Statement on Hager/Stephenson Book
Sunday, 26 March 2017, 10:11 pm | New Zealand Defence Force
The central premise of Nicky Hager and Jon Stephenson’s book, Hit and Run, is incorrect, says the Chief of Defence Force, Lieutenant General Tim Keating. More >>
