by Chris Thatcher | Jan 14, 2019 | Equiment, News, Procurement
by Chris Thatcher On the night of April 17, 2002, Major Harry Schmidt, an F-16 fighter jet pilot with the United States Air National Guard, believed he was taking ground fire and mistakenly dropped a laser-guided GBU-12 Paveway II bomb on soldiers from the 3rd...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 17, 2018 | Leadership, News, Procurement
by Chris Thatcher The 2017 defence policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged (SSE), brought clarity, funding and momentum to a large number of Canadian Army equipment projects, many of which had been stalled for some time. But it also raised concerns about a perennial...
by Chris Thatcher | Dec 4, 2018 | Equiment, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole The nine-millimetre Browning semi-automatic pistol used by the Canadian Armed Forces is a technically impressive weapon. It was conceived by American John Browning for Belgium’s Fabrique National in 1911, and has been used by more than 50 militaries...
by Chris Thatcher | Nov 19, 2018 | Combat Vehicles, News, Procurement
by Ken Pole The last major element of the Canadian Army’s modernization of its medium logistics support capability, the new Standard Military Pattern (SMP) trucks, evidently has a budding fan club. Two of the 9.5-tonne capacity four-axle SMPs, from...
by Chris Thatcher | Nov 9, 2018 | Equiment, News, Procurement
by Ian Couts “Boot-boots-boots-boots movin’ up an’ down again” The British poet Rudyard Kipling certainly nailed one of the central aspects of military life in that particular ballad. Even today, when troops are carried into action on helicopters and in LAVs,...
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,...
