by Editor | Mar 21, 2022 | Digital Army, Equipment, News, S&T
by Canadian Army Today staff Last September, two 3D polymer printers were among the equipment airlifted into Latvia for rotation 20-02 of Operation Reassurance. Army units have been experimenting with additive manufacturing (AM) since at least 2014, but the...
by Editor | Mar 15, 2022 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News
by Canadian Army Today Staff When Exercise Soaring Goose launched from the Blissville airstrip in the Gagetown range on July 20, it marked the first training event for 129 Battery as a dedicated small unmanned aircraft systems (SUAS) unit. Since the CU172...
by Editor | Feb 8, 2022 | Equipment, News
by Ian Coutts There is ready. And then there’s ready. Back in May 2021, General Dynamics Land Systems Canada posted a video on YouTube featuring its new Armoured Combat Support Vehicle (ACSV). Anyone watching their presentation, a glitzy affair with lights and...
by Editor | Dec 20, 2021 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News
Photo: Pte Robert Kingerski by Lt (N) Andrew McLaughlin It isn’t often an infantry soldier gets to help test kit so vital to their craft way before it’s available for training or use on the battlefield. A program spearheaded by Defence Research...
by Editor | Jul 19, 2021 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News, Unmanned Systems
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Sometime in the next 24 months, light infantry soldiers could be asked to help test the utility of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The Directorate of Land Requirements...
by Editor | Jul 2, 2021 | Equipment, News
The Sig Sauer P320 will likely be among several options to replace the Canadian Army’s current Browning 9mm pistol, shown here during the Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration at the Connaught Ranges and Primary Training Centre in Ottawa in September 2019....
