China Shadows Philippine Sea Exercise
China’s navy vessels tailed the Philippines’ joint maritime exercise with Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United States in the West Philippine Sea (WPS), the Armed Forces of the Philippines…
29th RIMPAC Exercise Announced
Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC)…
Exercise Bersama Lima Concludes
Exercise Bersama Lima, an annual military exercise between the five nations in the Five Power Defence Arrangements, has concluded. More than 400 Australian Defense Force personnel deployed for two weeks…
Navy Assists Customs in Underwater Drug Search
A team of Royal New Zealand Navy divers has scoured the hulls of two ships berthed at the Port of Tauranga, following intelligence reports they may have been transporting narcotics…
End of NASSE Operation 2023
Operation NASSE is an annual multinational fisheries surveillance and control operation conducted jointly with Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. From 20 June to 15 August, Fiji participated for…
US & South Korea to Hold Exercise Ulchi Freedom Shield
The ROK and U.S. will conduct Ulchi Freedom Shield (UFS), an 11-day, joint, combined, and interagency exercise event from Aug. 21 to 31, 2023. The annual exercise is designed to…
Royal Brunei Navy Attended MNEK and IMSS
The 4th Multilateral Naval Exercise KOMODO (MNEK) was held in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Republic of Indonesia from 4 to 8 June 2023, bearing the theme “Partnership to Recover and to…
FS Vendémiaire Completes Refit in New Zealand
On April 9, 2023, the surveillance frigate (FS) Vendémiaire left New Zealand where she spent three months in major technical shutdown (ATM). This relocated maintenance period was marked by a…
HMNZS Te Kaha in Operation Enduring Freedom
On 11 November 2002 the NZ Government announced that frigate HMNZS Te Kaha, as well as a P-3 Orion, would be deployed to the international operations campaign against the Taliban…
RNZAF Farewells P-3K2 Orion Fleet After 55 Years
A three-ship formation flight departed RNZAF Base Auckland, at Whenuapai, and flew over Waikato, Manawatū, Napier, Tauranga, Coromandel Coast, Great Barrier Island and Whangārei, with close formation fly-pasts over Ohakea,…