{"id":593,"date":"2025-08-22T12:06:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/new-zealand-selects-mh-60r-and-a321xlr-in-major-fleet-recapitalization\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:06:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:06:21","slug":"new-zealand-selects-mh-60r-and-a321xlr-in-major-fleet-recapitalization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/2025\/08\/22\/new-zealand-selects-mh-60r-and-a321xlr-in-major-fleet-recapitalization\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Selects MH-60R and A321XLR in Major Fleet Recapitalization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/rnzafrecapitalization_1-460x259.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"RNZAF Orders MH-60R and A321XLR\" \/>The Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk is New Zealand\u2019s preferred option to replace its ageing SH-2G(I) Seasprite helicopters, while Airbus A321XLRs will replace the RNZAF\u2019s two Boeing 757s. A joint announcement by New Zealand\u2019s Minister of Defence, Judith Collins, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, on Aug. 21, 2025 heralded the beginning of a NZ$2.7 billion [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk is New Zealand\u2019s preferred option to replace its ageing SH-2G(I) Seasprite helicopters, while Airbus A321XLRs will replace the RNZAF\u2019s two Boeing 757s. A joint announcement by New Zealand\u2019s Minister of Defence, Judith Collins, and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Peters, on Aug. 21, 2025 heralded the beginning of a NZ$2.7 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zephyrsys.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}