Winston Peters: Foreign Affairs Minister on New Zealand deploying a small Defence Force team to provide Red Sea maritime security - Heather du Plessis-Allan Drive

Defence Minister Judith Collins says our personnel will support coalition forces with targeting for precision attacks on identified targets.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters is giving little away on what that will look like.

"Well, it's finding people who are threatening lives with piracy, mayhem and murder- and stopping them."

Asked if it was drone operation, Peters says he can't answer that question.

LISTEN ABOVE

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.