{"id":127907,"date":"2025-11-10T13:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127907\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T13:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T13:52:10","slug":"german-air-force-spotted-in-hawkes-bay-skies-as-part-of-nz-training-exercise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/127907\/","title":{"rendered":"German Air Force spotted in Hawke\u2019s Bay skies as part of NZ training exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Reporter\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7<\/p>\n

10 Nov, 2025 02:52 AM2 mins to read<\/p>\n

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The German and New Zealand air forces are conducting a large-scale training exercise together. Photo \/ Defence Force<\/p>\n

Once on opposite sides of history, the German and New Zealand air forces are now flying together in a large-scale training exercise in Aotearoa\u2019s skies.<\/p>\n

\n On Monday, Hawke\u2019s Bay residents spotted two Luftwaffe aircraft flying overhead as part of training routes stretching from Marlborough in the South Island to Taup\u014d
\n in the North Island, passing through Dannevirke and Napier.\n <\/p>\n

The German Air Force is in New Zealand for its first large-scale joint exercise with the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF), focused on testing key capabilities that support combat operations, including security forces (with patrol dogs), rescue firefighters, aviation fuel specialists and air movements operators.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe RNZAF have worked with the GAF [German Air Force] on exercises and in various other activities in the past, but hosting a deployment of this size is a first,\u201d the NZ Defence Force says in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n

The German contingent, five aircraft including three A400M Atlas transporters, an Airbus A330 and an A321, arrived at Base Ohakea on Thursday, where personnel were welcomed with a p\u014dwhiri led by Base Commander Group Captain Peter Gibson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafaella Melo Reporter\u00b7Hawkes Bay Today\u00b7 10 Nov, 2025 02:52 AM2 mins to read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68,806,1561,3248,5760,49753,1976,78,111,43,139,69,1118,5202,9877,9636,8812],"class_list":{"0":"post-127907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-air","9":"tag-as","10":"tag-bay","11":"tag-exercise","12":"tag-force","13":"tag-german","14":"tag-hawkes","15":"tag-in","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-newzealand","19":"tag-nz","20":"tag-of","21":"tag-part","22":"tag-skies","23":"tag-spotted","24":"tag-training"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}