Urban operations training drives improvements to WES
by Allan Joyner During Exercise Certain Challenge, the 1988 iteration of NATO’s series of immense Reforger exercises, I watched a master corporal from the Royal Canadian Dragoons glumly climb down off 24 Bravo. He listened incredulously as the umpire explained that...
Medium range radar: A portable, powerful addition
by Steven Fouchard, Army Public Affairs Recent military operations in places like Iraq and Afghanistan have shown that smaller – even improvised – weapons are both difficult to detect and deadly. The Canadian Army (CA) is adopting a high-tech solution to those...
Events, injects and other predicaments
by Chris Thatcher Artillery gunners pride themselves on timing and accuracy. So when a round misses its intended target, it can quickly become a nightmare. For Captain Valérie Harvey, it resulted in one of her more challenging days. Within seconds after the round...
New Leopard 2 Armoured Engineer Vehicle is ‘the natural evolution’
by Lt. Ken Jacobson As part of the Force Mobility Enhancement (FME) project, the Canadian Army (CA) began receiving 18 new and improved Leopard 2 Armoured Engineer Vehicles (Leo 2 AEVs) in late fall 2017 to provide critical support to the CA’s Leopard 2 main battle...
Training in transition
Among the many directives in the government’s new defence policy is a mandate for the Canadian Armed Forces to be able to concurrently conduct up to nine distinct operations around the world. It also seeks to expand the capability and capacity of the Reserve Force,...
Signallers: Mission Critical
Few trades in the Canadian Armed Forces are changing as rapidly as signals officers or are in such high demand. Warrant Officer Sara Anvari, a Reservist attached to 33 Signals Regiment in Ottawa, spoke with Canadian Army Today about the challenges of the trade and how...
