by Chris Thatcher | Oct 19, 2018 | News
by Chris Thatcher For most athletes, there is nothing like representing one’s country at an international competition. Often, it marks the pinnacle of a career’s worth of training. For Sergeant Mark Vokey, it’s a little more like winning the lottery. In July, the...
by Chris Thatcher | Oct 12, 2018 | News, Training System
by Ken Pole There’s something fundamentally unsettling about a robotic weapons system that can track you silently and relentlessly with its cameras, computers and servo motors – even if it only fires paintballs and the only damage is to your ego. That was the scene...
by Chris Thatcher | Oct 4, 2018 | News, Procurement
By Chris Thatcher In a digital battlespace reliant on the Global Positioning System for positioning, navigation and timing, trust in the veracity and security of the GPS signal is critical. The Canadian Army is aware of the vulnerability of GPS to jamming,...
by Chris Thatcher | Sep 13, 2018 | Equiment, News
by Chris Thatcher For the past 20 years, the Canadian Army’s light infantry battalions have been light by default, not by design. In an effort to address that gap in capability, successive Army commanders have since 2015 made it a priority to rethink the construct...
by Chris Thatcher | Sep 5, 2018 | News, Procurement, Training System
by Ian Coutts “You know the movie The Matrix? It’s essentially like that.” Major Giuseppe Ramacieri is trying to explain the thinking behind the Army’s proposed Land Vehicle Combat Training System (LVCTS). If the Keanu Reeves movie of life inside a...
by Chris Thatcher | Aug 23, 2018 | Combat Vehicles, Equiment, News
By Ken Pole There may still be a grain of truth in the observation that “an army marches on its stomach,” as variously attributed to Napoleon and Frederick the Great. But the Light Armoured Vehicle (LAV) from General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada (GDLSC) is a far...
