{"id":14625,"date":"2025-08-12T05:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14625"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:15:07","slug":"defence-mulls-over-whether-to-follow-in-australias-footsteps-for-navy-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14625","title":{"rendered":"Defence mulls over whether to follow in Australia’s footsteps for navy contracts"},"content":{"rendered":"

No decisions have been made on the make-up of the country’s naval fleet, the Ministry of Defence says.<\/p>\n

Australia has\u00a0picked Japan to build its next fleet of warships<\/a>\u00a0in contracts\u00a0worth billions of dollars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

New Zealand has a policy of buying equipment like Australia’s, to stay “interoperable”.<\/p>\n

The ministry said it was investigating a range of options to replace the ageing fleet after 2029.<\/p>\n

“No decisions have been made on the make-up of New Zealand’s maritime fleet.”<\/p>\n

Business cases would have to be done.<\/p>\n

“Key considerations when developing a business case include: what is the Australian approach, and is there any reason for New Zealand to take a different approach.”<\/p>\n

The defence capability plan has a focus on naval drones between now and 2029, and Budget 2025 puts upgrades to Devonport naval base and buying\u00a0$2 billion-plus of maritime helicopters<\/a>\u00a0to the fore.<\/p>\n

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No decisions have been made on the make-up of the country’s naval fleet, the Ministry of Defence says. Australia has\u00a0picked Japan to build its next fleet of warships\u00a0in contracts\u00a0worth billions of dollars. New Zealand has a policy of buying equipment like Australia’s, to stay “interoperable”. The ministry said it was investigating a range of options […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14627,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14625\/revisions\/14627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}