A former Hawke’s Bay schoolgirl has been named the New Zealand Defence Force Sportsperson of the Year for a second time.

New Zealand and Japan have agreed two important defence and security arrangements, Foreign Minister Winston Peters and ...

New Zealand's Defence Minister Judith Collins attends a briefing with senior New Zealand Defence Force officers during a ceremony marking the establishment of a space unit at RNZAF Base Auckland. (New ...

KRI Golok , a trimaran missile craft operated by the Indonesian Navy, was designed by the New Zealand naval architect LOMOcean Marine. (Gordon Arthur) The New Zealand Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ...

The Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk is New Zealand’s preferred option to replace its ageing SH-2G(I) Seasprite helicopters, while Airbus A321XLRs will replace the RNZAF’s two Boeing 757s. A joint announcement ...

New Zealand’s largest trade union, the Public Service Association (PSA), is fervently supporting moves to roughly double the military budget in preparation for war. Under the guise of seeking to ...

New Zealand's defence minister has sympathised with the Trump administration's push for partner countries to lift defence spending, saying Australia and New Zealand are among nations that have been ...

New Zealand is stepping up to deter Chinese adventurism. The New Zealand government has announced that it will nearly double its defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP), some 9 ...

Some curious penguins turned up as “unexpected guests” while the Royal New Zealand Air Force was carrying out training in Antarctica. Footage posted by the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) on Thursday ...

Flying through brutal weather in the permanent night of an Antarctic winter, the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) successfully rescued three personnel from America's McMurdo Station in the ...

The Royal New Zealand Air Force has conducted an avionics upgrade of its NH Industries NH90 helicopters. The work was performed by a defence force team at RNZAF Ohakea, and did not require the ...

The New Zealand navy's largest ship encountered a Taiwanese warship as it sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait ...