by Editor | Jan 7, 2024 | Equipment, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole When the federal government rolled out its June 2017 defence policy paper, it was packaged as “a long-term vision” for how Canada’s military could respond to a rapidly changing world. It was an ambitious vision built around a promise to spend...
by Editor | Dec 21, 2023 | Equipment, News
by Canadian Army Today Staff If you have noticed more requests for participation by your unit in equipment trials over the past few years, you are probably not alone. From an integrated soldier information sharing system, to light off-road vehicles, camouflage...
by Editor | Dec 13, 2023 | News, Training System
by Chris Thatcher Wainwright still looked like Wainwright, albeit with the conspicuous haze and smell of smoke from distant wildfires burning elsewhere in the province. But for the participants of Exercise Maple Resolve, the sprawling training area in eastern...
by Editor | Dec 7, 2023 | Combat Capability, News
by Ian Coutts Latvia if necessary but not necessarily Latvia. That, to borrow from William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s famously waffling prime minister, is the situation that 129 Battery, home of the Army’s CU -172 uncrewed aerial system (UAS), finds itself...
by Editor | Dec 1, 2023 | Equipment, News, Procurement
Since February 2022, the Canadian government has provided over $2.4 billion in military assistance to Ukraine. Some equipment was specifically acquired for the Ukrainian military, but much has come from the stocks of the Canadian Army, including Leopard 2A4 main...
by Editor | Nov 18, 2023 | Equipment, News, Training System
by Ken Pole Considering firearms controls and setting aside the law enforcement community, the first time most Canadians encounter pistols is likely when they join the military. The Army is the most common vector since its approximately 44,000 Regular and...
