by Editor | Oct 8, 2022 | Equipment, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole Well, not really, because the new semi-automatic Sig Sauer P320s finally chosen as replacement for the Canadian Armed Forces’ legacy Browning Hi-Powers come with their own holsters. Defence Minister Anita Anand confirmed that a US$3.2-million...
by Editor | Oct 3, 2022 | Digital Army, News, S&T
by Andrew J. MacDonald and R. Gordon Wight For modern mechanized militaries, mobility is critical. In Field Manual 3-90.2 The Tank and Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force, nearly a fifth of the pages of the main body of this document mention the word...
by Editor | Sep 5, 2022 | Exercises, News
By Lt(N) Andrew McLaughlin Hundreds of Canadian Army Reserve soldiers from across Ontario and beyond participated in simultaneous infantry and artillery exercises at 4th Canadian Division Training Centre (4 CDTC) in Meaford from August 20-27. The expansive...
by Editor | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Unmanned Systems
What’s the best way to detect and defeat mini and micro drones? In September 2019, the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program hosted a sandbox challenge in Suffield, Alberta, to help answer that. They selected a dozen companies – Canadian and...
by Editor | Aug 15, 2022 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News, Procurement
The steady build-up of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles along Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders was a stark reminder of the relevance of anti-armour capability. Since the early 2000s, as priorities shifted from the Cold War to combat in Afghanistan, to...
