It is supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Defence and is commanded by the Chief of Defence Force. The principal roles and tasks expected of the NZDF is to provide a combat capable force to defend ...

Across the Pacific and the Southern Ocean, New Zealand has been trying to strike a careful balance in its defense and surveillance approach. While strengthening its security partnerships and expanding ...

The New Zealand Navy will return to service in the third quarter of 2026 one of two offshore patrol vessels idle since 2021, the chief of the defence force said on Tuesday, at a cost running into ...

Wellington: The recent appointment of New Zealand’s First Resident Defence Advisor to India underscores the growing bilateral ...

Analysis: New Zealand has put space front and centre of its defence industrial strategy at the same time that US space weapons are in record demand from other countries. Space and drones are the ...

SINGAPORE—The New Zealand Defense Force (NZDF) has established both an enhanced strike project and a persistent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) project to examine future ...

New Zealand’s military head, Air Marshal Tony Davies, told a parliamentary committee on December 2 that the NZ Defence Force (NZDF) was “dusting off the history books” and looking at “what New Zealand ...

For Colonel Lisa Kelliher, DMSM, the New Zealand Defence Force’s (NZDF) newly appointed Defence Adviser to Australia, Canberra represents the centre of NewZealand’s most important defence partnership ...