NZ warships upgraded with supersonic missile systems

A victim of an Air Force rapist says ranking officers knew about his crimes.

Draft guidelines issued after army let primary school kids handle guns last year.

Admiral Harry Harris is Donald Trump's pick for US Ambassador to Australia.

NZDF has no plans to scrap drones banned by the US.

COMMENT: Divert some defence money to fighting stink bugs, argues Brian Rudman.

New Zealanders fit in, the Defence Minister was told in Iraq.

Flights have been cancelled and roads are closed as Cyclone Gita begins to be felt.

HMNZS Wellington rescuing woman with fractured leg from Great Barrier Island.

Operationally sensitive equipment was stolen from Whenuapai Air Force base in 2016.

A New Zealand AirForce P-3K2 Orion has left Auckland Base this morning to join the search for a 17m wooden catamaran with more than 50 people on board, reported missing in the Pacific Ocean. Source - Twitter/NewZealandDefenceForce

Foam used to fight fires of flammable liquids contaminates groundwater near airbase.

The NZDF was part of an international naval coalition that helped seize 915kg of heroin.

New SAS machines replace ageing fleet that suffered badly in Afghanistan.

Russia identified the village from which swarm of drones attacked its main military base.

Army veteran saved a fellow soldier from losing an arm, if not his life, in East Timor.

The vessel disappeared after it ran out of fuel.

Global defence spending is about to hit its highest level since the Cold War.

Public "putting themselves in danger" by entering the Kaipara Air Weapons Range.

Australia has released its foreign policy White Paper.

Defence minister Ron Mark has admitted wearing medals in a breach of the rules.

New Minister of Defence Ron Mark has a problem with the medals he's been wearing.

OPINION: Climate change is likely the biggest threat to national security we face.

Wellington is picking up the pieces a year on from the central NZ quake.

A Royal NZ Air Force Orion has lost power in one engine but has landed safely.

The three men having been missing for more than five days after going fishing on Monday.

Labour repeatedly called for an inquiry while in Opposition.

A RNZAF Orion aircraft makes an emergency landing at Whenuapai RNZAF airbase after a loss of one engine. Credit: Brett Phibbs

"I'm hanging out to get into Iraq as fast as we can."

Sgt. La David Johnson died trying to save comrades during deadly ambush.