by Chris Thatcher | Feb 10, 2020 | Army Reserves, Combat Capability, News
by Bill Williams Military attacks generally focus on an enemy’s weaknesses. When cybercriminals, for example, wanted plans for America’s new state-of-the-art Joint Strike Fighter, they targeted one of the project’s subcontractors. Cutting around heavily guarded...
by Chris Thatcher | Feb 4, 2020 | Equiment, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole Two new weapons systems for the Canadian Army, the C6-A1 Flex 7.62-mm general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) and the C-20 sniper rifle, both coming from Colt Canada Corp. in Kitchener, Ont., are expected to significantly upgrade the already proven...
by Chris Thatcher | Jan 29, 2020 | News, Operations
by Chris Thatcher In the two years since the multinational battle group in Latvia was established in June 2017, Russian information operations on social media and other fora have painted a picture of an ineffective formation too small and too disjointed to...
by Chris Thatcher | Jan 28, 2020 | News
by Lt Natasha Tersigni Coal Harbour, British Columbia — For members of 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group (4 CRPG), operating in austere environments is second nature. Rangers are the Canadian Armed Forces’ eyes and ears in isolated, northern, and coastal communities...
by Chris Thatcher | Jan 21, 2020 | Combat Vehicles, News, Procurement
By Allan Joyner It might be the last and one of the least glamorous in a steady line of vehicle projects that have delivered logistics and combat trucks to the Canadian Army over the past five years, but the Light Utility Vehicle (LUV) project has the attention...
by Chris Thatcher | Jan 13, 2020 | News, Procurement
by Richard Bray Tomorrow’s Canadian Army will get to the mission faster and safer, moving over a new generation of bridge and gap crossing equipment. At the Directorate of Land Requirements, Major François Langis has been working on the Bridge and Gap Crossing...
