From Ukraine with urgency: How the lessons of conflict are shaping the Army agenda
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. To Lieutenant-General Jocelyn (Joe) Paul, Russia’s war in Ukraine has upheld many of the precepts guiding the Canadian Army. It has affirmed the importance of land forces and the simple fact...
Fall 2022
This Issue JADC2: A Canadian approach? Digitally aided fire support 21 EW: Building a profile CMERT force protection Commemorating the Rangers’ 75th Got what it takes for CJIRU? Wargaming the info environment Where’s the capability gap?
Into the Fight
by Chris Thatcher Training soldiers for future combat comes with distinct pressures; training soldiers knowing they will be in the fury of a life-and-death fight within days of completing your course is something else altogether. Yet that’s the dynamic...
SIG Sauer P320 to replace Browning Hi-Power pistol
by Ken Pole More than a decade after the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) identified the need for a new general service pistol, the first of at least 7,000 SIG Sauer P320 semi-automatics should be delivered to the Army in mid-2023, along with magazines, holsters and...
Would you like that in CADPAT or CADPAT?
Pants a little faded? Shirt too tight? Boots showing their age? Soon you’ll be able to order replacements online and have them delivered to your door. In mid-October, the government awarded Logistik Unicorp a 20-year contract to provide the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF)...
Coming soon to a holster near you
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...
Rapid military bridge evaluation software
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...
Hundreds of Army Reservists converge on Meaford
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...
Countering the drones
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...
Time for a new tank killer
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...
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