Stalwart Guardian: Air mobility, urban assault, and a bridge that went boom
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher When you’re confronted by a determined foe, sometimes the only solution is to blow the bridge. After a hard-fought battle to seize the strategic crossing earlier in the...
Digital fires: the next bound
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Six years ago, the Canadian Army acquired an Android-based Digitally Aided Close Air Support (DACAS) system that has fundamentally changed air-to-ground CAS...
Arctic Summer
by Lt(N) Andrew McLaughlin The Grey and Simcoe Foresters (G&SF), an Army Reserve unit headquartered in Barrie, Ontario, recently led a Joint Task Force (JTF) of over 150 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members made up of Army and Air Force assets and personnel....
Commemorative Voyage
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Ian Coutts Talk about a study in contrast. The location is the Davis Lock, one of the prettiest spots on the Rideau Canal system. Boaters heading upstream approach the lock...
Snipers set sights on new rifle
by Ken Pole If you’re a Canadian Army sniper, you can expect to have your new rifle no later than next April 1. All 229 of the bolt-action weapons, designated C21, are expected to be in the Army’s hands by year’s end, but it will take time to ensure that...
Defence Minister: Culture change pending for RMC
Photo: DND by Ken Pole The federal government has announced a sweeping ground-level response to the challenge of sexual assault in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) – at Canada’s two military colleges where Defence Minister Anita Anand says there is a...
Carl Gustaf and M72 replacements: More of the same?
by Ken Pole The brutal effectiveness of portable missile launchers against armoured vehicles has been graphically proven in Ukraine’s resistance to Russia’s invasion almost from the day it began last February. Gutted by Ukrainian troops using mostly munitions...
What happens when you turn drones over to troops?
by Ian Coutts Sometimes you have an idea that is so good even you are surprised. When Jack Collier showed up at this year’s Exercise Maple Resolve in Wainwright in May, with a batch of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), he anticipated that members of 1st Battalion,...
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?
News Releases
- New player in tank production: Leonardo and Rheinmetall joint venture
- Ultra I&C wins $7 million contract for tactical data link support
- Allen-Vanguard receives follow-on order of SCORPION ECM systems for NATO ally
- Galvion receives follow-on Batlskin Caiman helmet order for Canadian DICE program
- Hanwha signs MOUs with Canadian partners