Resilience through numbers:
New Zealand’s plan to build a more capable navy over the next decade By Ian Kemp
New Zealand’s ANZAC-class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha (centre) berthed at Esquimalt, British Columbia in December 2019 following its Frigate Systems Upgrade by Lockheed Martin Systems Canada. © DND
The RNZN’s two ANZAC-class frigates are being equipped with MBDA’s Sea Ceptor Common Anti-air Modular Missile (CAMM) air defence missile system during the Frigate Systems Upgrade. © MBDA
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n recent decades, the New Zealand
Defence Force has been reliant “on a number of capabilities based on either a single or very small number of platforms,” stated The Defence Capability
Plan (DCP 2019), published by the Labourled, coalition government in June 2019. The Royal New Zealand Navy includes only a single sealift vessel, HMNZS Canterbury, two ANZAC-class frigates, both of which
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