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?
Into the Fight
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. 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...
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...
News Releases
- Rheinmetall awarded Canada’s Enhanced Recovery Capability project
- 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