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Modularity

JS Kumano
Defence

After the 2025 Defence Capability Plan – The Next Generation Navy

May 21, 2025

The Defence Capability Plan’s signalling of like-for-like replacement for the Anzac frigates has implications for decisions around the rest of the fleet, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts. […]

Adaptable Strike Frigate
Defence

Future Force Design Principles and the next generation Royal New Zealand Navy fleet

September 18, 2023

Andrew Watts considers the Future Force Design Principles 2023 through the lens of capability modularity. Does a modular approach present the most cost effective means for acquiring capability for the full spectrum of potential missions? […]

KALAAT BEN ABBES
Defence

What the Australian Defence Strategic Review could mean for New Zealand naval force structure

June 23, 2023

An Australian force design oriented towards Distributed Maritime Operations poses questions for the design of NZ’s future fleet, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts. The Australian Defence Strategic […]

The Cube
Defence

SH Defence and Navantia sign MoU for development of modular Cube system

January 17, 2023

Modular Cube system is the subject of a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) inked recently between SH Defence and Navantia. Danish equipment provider SH Defence and Spain’s Navantia have signed an MoU to explore the […]

Thetis Class
Defence

Modularity: What our partners are doing to build future-focused navies

January 4, 2023

The Royal Navy’s pursuit of capability adaptability should re-assure our own defence policy makers that modularity is worth investigating, writes maritime capability specialist and former Royal New Zealand Navy Officer Andrew Watts. This article is […]

KALAAT BEN ABBES
Defence

What the Australian Defence Strategic Review could mean for New Zealand naval force structure

April 28, 2022

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