Major Equipment
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
- 105 x NZ Light Armoured Vehicle (NZLAV)
- 95 Infantry Mobility Vehicle (IMV)
- 7 Light Obstacle Blade Vehicle (LOB)
- 3 Recovery Vehicle (LAV-R)
Light operational vehicles
- 352 x Pinzgauer High Mobility All-Terrain Vehicle (248 non-armoured / 60 armoured)
- 122 / 23 command and control variants
- 68 / 37 crew served weapon carrier variants
- 95 general service variants
- 15 shelter carrier variants
- 8 ambulance variants
- 13 special operations
Support vehicles
- U1700 Unimog trucks
Fire support/artillery
- 50 x L16A2 81 mm Mortar
- 24 x 105 mm L119 Light Gun
Missile/rocket systems
- M72 Light Anti-Armour Weapon
- 42 x 84 mm Carl Gustav recoilless rifle M3 Man-portable Light Anti-armour Weapon
- 24 x Javelin Anti-Tank Guided Missile (ATGM) launchers, 120 missiles
- 12 x Mistral Very Low Level Air Defence Weapon
Weapons
- / Rifle 5.56mm IW Steyr The first 5000 weapons were manufactured by Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and all subsequent weapons have been manufactured by Thales Australia (formerly ADI). The New Zealand variant is similar to the Australian F88 Austeyr, but does not have the automatic lock out (ALO) button.
- SIG P226 9 mm Pistol
- M203 grenade launcher
- C9 Minimi 5.56mm Light Machine Gun
- Minimi 7.62 TR Minimi chambered in 7.62mm to replace the C9 light machine gun
- FN MAG 58 7.62 mm GPMG (General Purpose Machine Gun) to replace the older L7A2 British version
- Benelli M3 12 gauge Shotgun
- / M2 machine gun .50 Calibre Heavy Machine Gun
- L96 Sniper Rifle
- LMT 308 MWS
- Artic Warfare AW50 12.7mm Anti Materiel/ sniper rifle
- // L1A1 Self-loading rifle (in storage)
- Heckler & Koch GMG 40mm automatic grenade launcher
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