{"id":2488516,"date":"2026-07-04T22:54:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2488516"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:54:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T22:54:45","slug":"p-8a-poseidon-fires-harpoon-royal-new-zealand-air-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/p-8a-poseidon-fires-harpoon-royal-new-zealand-air-force\/","title":{"rendered":"P-8A Poseidon fires Harpoon | Royal New Zealand Air Force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0zM1VCUZNMo?autoplay=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>In coordination with the Royal Australian Air Force and United States Navy, a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon aircraft and crew from No. 5 Squadron successfully fired two AGM-84 Harpoon guided missiles at a decommissioned target ship, with both missiles hitting the target.<\/p>\n<p>It was part of multi-domain Exercise Valiant Shield involving aircraft, ships and submarines from New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese activities are critical to the New Zealand Defence Force\u2019s readiness to be able to meet the challenges of a deteriorating strategic environment, and we are incredibly grateful for the support of partners to assist us in regenerating the ability to rapidly strike targets at distance.\u201d ~ Air Component Commander, Air Commodore Andy Scott<\/p>\n<p>Full story \u27a1\ufe0f nzdf.mil.nz\/P-8A-fires-Harpoon<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0zM1VCUZNMo\">Video Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In coordination with the Royal Australian Air Force and United States Navy, a Royal New Zealand Air Force P-8A Poseidon aircraft and crew from No. 5 Squadron successfully fired two AGM-84 Harpoon guided missiles at a decommissioned target ship, with both missiles hitting the target. It was part of multi-domain Exercise Valiant Shield involving aircraft, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2488517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1783205683_maxresdefault.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488518,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488516\/revisions\/2488518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2488517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}