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 | 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 | 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...