by Editor | Jan 23, 2023 | C4ISR, News
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...
by Editor | Jan 12, 2023 | Army Reserve, News, Operations
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....
by Editor | Dec 31, 2022 | News
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 through a deep cut in the rock, passing by a frothing waterfall. Just past the lock,...
by Editor | Dec 15, 2022 | Equipment, News, Procurement
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...
by Editor | Dec 14, 2022 | Leadership, News
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...
by Editor | Dec 12, 2022 | Equipment, News, Procurement
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...
