by Editor | Nov 28, 2022 | News, S&T
by Ian Coutts Sometimes you have an idea that is so good even you are surprised. When Jack Collier showed up at this year’s Exercise Maple Resolve in Wainwright in May, with a batch of Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS), he anticipated that members of 1st Battalion,...
by Editor | Oct 3, 2022 | Digital Army, News, S&T
by Andrew J. MacDonald and R. Gordon Wight For modern mechanized militaries, mobility is critical. In Field Manual 3-90.2 The Tank and Mechanized Infantry Battalion Task Force, nearly a fifth of the pages of the main body of this document mention the word...
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 | Sep 3, 2021 | News, Procurement, S&T
by Maude Amyot-Bourgeois and George Nikolakakos Computer wargaming and combat simulation have a long tradition of providing valuable and economical decision support to often costly and complex Canadian Army equipment upgrade and replacement projects. These...
by Editor | Apr 6, 2021 | News, S&T
by Dr. Dominik Pudo, Dr. Jean-François Daigle, Capt Joanne Clifford, Capt Angela Starchuk, MWO Richard Landriault Since the first demonstration of the laser (an acronym for Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) in 1960, its applications have...
by Editor | Dec 16, 2020 | News, S&T
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. Beards and mustaches, neatly trimmed, of course, are a common sight on Army bases from coast to coast. The 2018 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) general order allowing facial hair and longer...
