by Editor | Mar 25, 2022 | Combat Capability, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole The bane of modern armies waging asymmetric warfare against non-state enemies, improvised explosive devices (IED) have been around for more than a century. Their first documented use was by the Germans to cover their retreat during the Battle of the...
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 | Mar 8, 2022 | Combat Capability, News
by Chris Thatcher Need reconnaissance imagery from a small surveillance drone? Electronic jamming? Air space coordination? Specialized engineering such as combat divers? How you request those, and other effects generated by the Army’s enablers, is about to...
by Editor | Feb 23, 2022 | Combat Capability, Digital Army, News
Upgraded software is planned for the Integrated Soldier System. A Canadian company is positioning to be its centre of excellence. Arriving on the scene of an active shooter is one of the more perilous situations a police officer can face. Critical...
by Editor | Feb 14, 2022 | Combat Capability, Leadership, News
by Chris Thatcher Call it a paradox of digital transformation. At a time when the Canadian Army seeks to digitize enterprise and operational practices, network sensors, shooters and command nodes to a unified digital backbone, and stream vast arrays of data to...
