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...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 31, 2019 | News, Procurement
by Chris Thatcher Like the proverbial iceberg, most of what you see at the Directorate of Land Requirements (DLR) is happening below the surface. The periodic requests for information and letters of interest issued to the defence industry on its behalf by...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 18, 2019 | Exercises, News, Training System
by Bill Williams Exercise Maple Resolve (Ex MR 19) continues to bat above its weight when preparing Canadian soldiers to deploy. Nearly a third of the more than 3,000 troops from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (1 CMBG) who took part in the annual event at...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 10, 2019 | News, Operations
by Allan Joyner When the LAVs of Duke’s Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment (1 RCR) squeezed up the congested roads in Constance Bay, Ont. on the morning of April 26, the spirits of the local volunteers who had spent days filling sandbags to protect...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 3, 2019 | Equiment, News, S&T
Unmanned aircraft have long been catnip for commanders on operations. The persistent feed of sensor data from ISTAR (intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance) platforms has been vital to the success of coalition missions globally. For over a...
