Validation of the light battalion
by Chris Thatcher The training area of the Joint Pacific Multinational Readiness Center (JPMRC) is nothing new to Canadian light infantry. Units have for years been training alongside American partners in Fort Wainwright, Alaska. As recently as last April, a...
Tactical vehicle on the fast track
by Chris Thatcher If you are among the handful of companies considering submitting a proposal for the Light Tactical Vehicle (LTV) project, know this: If you don’t have vehicles in your warehouse ready to be shipped in the next months, put the brakes on your...
The Project Convergence Effect
by Chris Thatcher As this edition was going into production, approximately 80 people from various organizations across the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) were departing for California and the U.S. Army’s National...
Anti-armour, counter-drone and air defence systems secured for Latvia
by Canadian Army Today Staff In the past three months, the federal government has secured contracts for several urgent operational requirements (UOR) for the Canadian-led multinational brigade under Operation Reassurance. While not permanent solutions to...
Spring 2024
This Issue Tech talkers in Latvia UORs under contract C4ISR battle lab Building out the Army app Teaching tech staff Loitering or rocket artillery Light tactical vehicles Canada's first NATO bridage
Land-Air Integration: The art of combined arms on the Advanced Tactical Aviation Course
Story and photos by Chris Thatcher On a clear, cool morning in mid April, a platoon from Charlie Company of the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) loaded into three CH-146 Griffons and a CH-147F Chinook and lifted off into the...
Science in support of trials, exercises, live experiments, and tech demonstrations
by Maude Amyot-Bourgeois, Dr. George Nikolakakos, Dr. Katherine M. Banko The Canadian Army, both alone and with allies, regularly conducts live and computer assisted exercises (CAX). Often incorporating military simulation and virtual components, these...
Enhancing weapons effects simulation
What was once labeled a midlife upgrade is now a full modernization program. Over the past three years, Weapons Effects Simulation (WES) has transformed from an enhancement of the equipment the Army currently uses to capture weapons and other effects in training, to a...
A mother, leader and soldier: An NCO’s story
by Lt(N) Andrew McLaughlin Master Corporal Afton David is a mother, a lawyer, and a leader in the Canadian Army Reserve infantry with the Cameron Highlanders of Ottawa ((Duke of Edinburgh's Own). We’re proud to tell her story on International Women’s Day. A...
Harding Driving: RAMD on the Armoured Combat Support Vehicles
By Ian Coutts We’ve all heard that old line about someone who, perhaps after a night of convivial socializing, resembles “forty miles of bad road.” Try 20,000 kilometres. That's what the Army is subjecting four new Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSV) to....
News Releases
- Galvion receives follow-on Batlskin Caiman helmet order for Canadian DICE program
- Hanwha signs MOUs with Canadian partners
- Thales secures key role for Army’s Land Command Support System
- Marshall and Power Team awarded contract for Canada’s flagship vehicle logistics project
- Babcock Canada, Roshel sign teaming agreement to support CAF land requirements