Good luck trying relocate OTS ,TTS trade workshop accommodation the main Philly Base down the road is very limited on space and footprint is limited by resource consent in some areas. Guess you could shift alot of it up to Whangaparoa.
Some of the coments on stuff from the average civi sound bit misguided and uninformed , comparing the NH90s to recent civilianisation process which are totally unrelated to the purchase of replacement helicopters. With the dominion post video the close up of cockpit shows a FLIR control.
Former Otaki RSA president Don Moselen will be charged in court tomorrow with wearing medals he is not entitled to after donning Vietnam War medals at Anzac Day services.
Returned and Services' Association chief executive Stephen Clarke said he did not know of anyone else who had faced the charge in New Zealand.
Under the Military Decorations and Distinctive Badges Act, it is an offence to wear medals you are not entitled to, with offenders liable to be fined $500.
Police served Mr Moselen with a summons on Friday to appear in Levin District Court tomorrow to be charged with wearing medals he is not entitled to and another charge of using a document.
He described the medal charge as political and said he would be disputing aspects of the case but would not make a plea tomorrow.
He said he would stay on as Otaki community board chairman, ''certainly'' until the case was resolved.
He resigned as RSA president and welfare officer in January after a police investigation was launched in December when they received a written complaint.
Vietnam War veterans made an official complaint to national RSA headquarters in 2010 after becoming suspicious because they did not remember Moselen in Vietnam and Defence Force records showed no-one by that name had served there or was awarded medals.
A Defence Force spokesman said even if Mr Moselen had been on a secret mission, his name would be on the official role by now. They could not find a personal file for Mr Moselen, ''therefore could not verify his entitlement to any medals''.
The RSA asked Mr Moselen to stop wearing the medals in 2010 but he was seen wearing them again at Anzac Day commemorations last year.
A medal-mounter said Mr Moselen asked for service medals to be mounted so they could be worn in 2007. He became suspicious because the medals were not in correct grouping and Moselen said he wanted them mounted for the family of a deceased serviceman named Twaddle who served in Vietnam.
There are no records of a Twaddle serving in Vietnam.
Acting Otaki RSA president Phyllis Miles said Mr Moselen was still a member and visited the club but if he was found guilty his membership would have to be ''revisited''.
Sounds like a fruit loop to me why would anyone claim to be veteran of conflict when they weren't even there sort takes the piss to those who put their necks on the line and those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Footage of 1964 visit to Wellington ,F4 phantoms,skyhawks, vigilante flight deck ops in Cook straight. Back in the day when country wasn't run by Lefty former university protesters .
You dont even have to look to Oz I know of senior marine technicians getting jobs on oil rigs in Taranaki for 150K+ NZ for 9 months of a year compared to 50K in the service you just cant compete with the outside market.
Would have been good leadership 10 years ago by the Air Force brass stood up against scrapping ACW . All ready turning into coast guard with project pretender (protector) two frigates is the difference.
If you look on slide 14 I think it's the launch /game fishing looking boat . It's a all in one mine countermeasures , rapid enviromental assement REA, maybe a bit of fishing stations on the side . As far a sea mines go there's still the odd ww2 mine floating around Solomon's etc. In the late 80s Iranians mined straights of Homus caused headache for yanks. Basically diver swims down and rigs a charge to dispose off mine, also get limpet mines which get attached to ships hull by sabouters divers .
The LWS's capability will be further enhanced later in 2012 when the Navy takes delivery of two new boats - TAKAPU and TARAPUNGA, which are designed to support Mine Counter Measures and REA operations. These boats will be deployable by sea,air and land and capable of transiting up to 24 knots to a minimum range of 150 nautical miles, providing LSWF with an organic over the-horizon-boat capability.
Hardly a ship if it's suppose to fit in a Herc more of a large fizz boat like ADVENTURE.
That tells me the RAF want to reacquire a MPA capability (quite rightly IMO, its madness the UK don’t have one)
I think the RAF will buy P-8’s in the future
Its the Fleet Air Arm of Royal Navy that will be operating them , RAF ended that role when the Nimrods were scrapped. Hopefully they il keep the second aircraft carrier they become a decent air power.
The Littoral ship in the power point looks like OPV hopefully get better armament MK57 or CIWS. Good to see Maritime Helicopter replacement is on the cards. The ANZAC frigate upgrade will be expensive exercise alone replacing combat system sensors ,new missiles for point defence system,decoys. I think the choice Between C27 and AM400 will depend on what the Army requires to fly troops supplies from A to B .
It has been reported on another place where I lurk that the latest edition of Navy Today says the Navy is acquiring two new Littoral Warfare Support Ships to be named "Takapu" and Tarapunga" the same names as the old Moa class white boats with pennants A07 and A08. Nothing anywhere on net and my copy of Navy today hasn't arrived yet. apparently they can transit at 24 knots. Anyone heard anything?
Had a flick through recent Navy Today on friday didnt notice any think on new ships Ill have closer read on monday was more about fleet divisions stuff from last year. Tenix shipyards in Williamstown VIC were brought out by BAE ,Whangarei ship building was shut down as soon as the IPVs were complete.
All depends on the load drawn by the gun, yank ships such as the Arleigh Burke Destroyer has 7 gas turbines 4 for propulsion and 3 for power generation all up think was about 8MW .
Part-time soldiers from a new "high-readiness reserve" force could find themselves in the line of fire alongside regular forces as part of a review's suggested cost-cutting.
The review says reserves are much cheaper to maintain than regular force members while not on deployment and suggests, for example, that if the Defence Force was to replace 1000 regular force members with 1000 members of a new "high-readiness reserve", it could save $49 million in four years.
"Costs could be saved if, for example, more [reserve force] personnel were employed on operations - particularly (but not exclusively) at the lower end of the conflict spectrum."
Replacing some full-time soldiers, sailors and air crews with the new type of part-time reserve is one of the options the Defence Force is considering as it works out how to save $400 million by 2015.
An external review of the reserve forces, commissioned by previous Minister of Defence Wayne Mapp through the Chief of Defence, recommends re-proportioning the regular forces and reserve forces (also known as territorial forces) as one way to make significant cost savings without losing operational military capability.
The report is one of several pieces of work, including a "value for money" review, which have identified options for reaching the savings target.
Members of the high-readiness reserve would spend 40 days a year in service and be deployed on a military operation with regular forces once every four years.
They would be integrated into regular force units.
Employers would be paid $5000 a year by the Defence Force if they employed a member of the reserve.
The 2011 report - from former Chief of Army Major-General (Rtd) Lou Gardiner, international security specialist Dr Beth Greener and merchant banker and colonel Paul Bayley - contains 43 recommendations on how to reconfigure the reserve forces.
It recommends introducing a second and third tier of reserves - the active reserve, which would be in local communities and provide services including local civil emergency response and youth training; and the standby reserve for ex-regular force or reserves who have a service liability under the Defence Act, or who wish to stay linked with the Defence Force.
It also recommends merging the six reserve battalion groups into three support battalions, based in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, and then divesting unneeded infrastructure, including the Arch Hill facility in central Auckland, home of the 3rd Auckland and Northland Battalion.
There is no reference in the report to the Kensington Army Hall in Dunedin, but it does suggest that maintaining the Defence Force presence in communities could be done relatively cheaply by co-locating with other Defence Force users and hiring smaller buildings.
A briefing to Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman said the merger would also represent cost savings in the loss of up to 600 reserve positions.
The report writers said although many of the changes recommended were already under way, integrating reserve and regular force personnel and having part-timers adopting more significant roles would still present a significant challenge to existing structures and institutional culture.
"We believe the Defence Force has a clear investment choice: that choice is to reduce the size of the regular force and invest the savings in high-readiness reserves."
The Defence Force has already achieved savings through various means, including "civilianisation" and cutting military bands.
Asked if the reserves review had been considered and any of its proposals were being taken further, a spokeswoman for the Defence Force said the request could take "a little while" to answer.
"Basically the frigates are NZ only line of defence all two of them,"
While one is on cocktail party duty and the other sits at Devonport getting repaired, the country is very safe with their pop guns protecting us. Not worth even having if it's about defence. The real best defence in NZ is every farmer and gang member has a personal rifle.
Dont think giving gang members guns is a safe option might wipe each other out . Heres a clip of a 5 inch pop gun same found on the anzacs you talk bout on a yank ship.
Third frigate was to allow 3 ship cycle one in refit other two at sea. Basically the frigates are NZ only line of defence all two of them, also used for force protection for joint amphibious task force AA,ASW,Asuw, EEZ patrols ,operational deployments CTF 151, Collective defence agreements 5 power defence exercise etc. Also gives Navy broad range of capabilities which you need from maritime nation. Going back to main topic with the way the NZDF is going probably pays to stay single if you want a long career yet you still wont earn enough( despite your deposit) for the bank to loan you decent loan required for average mortgage in Auckland. (except for the odd house out south or west). With lack of housing in Auckland and growing population continue to push up rents making less affordable for service members and families to remain in the service.
Sounds like good deal with proven technology longer endurance don't know if OZ Labor goverment will take it up though. Would there be some allowance to visit NZ ports ie relaxing stupid nuke free policy for nuke propulsion only ships. Remember the Russian offering NZ Nuke subs in exchange for NZ butter.
Beach King Air ER thought they would go for something larger?. OPVs are limited by weight and ARC of fire due super structure shape. Would have to be standalone system like CIWS , searam don't see point in putting high end weapons systems in COTS ship doesn't have ability to absorb damage redundancy etc of a warship. Will be interesting to see what's planned for ANZAC self defence upgrade combat system ,radar sensors etc. www.thalesgroup.com/Press_Releases/Countries/Australia/2011/20110802_-_Thales_promotes_New_Zealand_suppliers_for_ship_upgrade_bid/
Bit more of a balanced layered maritime surveillance /defence Utilizing Manned and unmanned surface and aerial assets. HC130 J , RQ-4 global hawk,CASA 235 etc