by Editor | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Unmanned Systems
What’s the best way to detect and defeat mini and micro drones? In September 2019, the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program hosted a sandbox challenge in Suffield, Alberta, to help answer that. They selected a dozen companies – Canadian and...
by Editor | Jul 19, 2021 | Combat Capability, Equipment, News, Unmanned Systems
La version française de cet article est disponible après le texte anglais. by Chris Thatcher Sometime in the next 24 months, light infantry soldiers could be asked to help test the utility of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV). The Directorate of Land Requirements...
by Editor | Dec 4, 2017 | News, Unmanned Systems
by Ken Pole As capabilities go, unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) are old hat to the Canadian Army. For over two decades now, soldiers with the 4th Artillery Regiment (General Support) and other artillery and armour units have trialed and experimented with...
by Editor | Nov 23, 2017 | Counter IED, News, Unmanned Systems
by Karla Gimby A United Nations doctrine on the improvised explosive device (IED) problem, created with the input of Canadian military personnel, has been put into practice for the first time in a multinational exercise held in Canada. Exercise Ardent Defender...