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Archived Articles

New Page (Feb 2010) Task Force Kandahar:  Canadian & US Troops Deployed in a Super Brigade
New Page (Jan 2010) Afghan South:  Danes Preparing to Deploy to Helmand with new CV9035 DK

Past Page (Sept 2009) Services to returning  CF  listed  in  the New Charter from Veterans Affairs
Past Page   (July 2009) CASR commentary on translated excerpts – two articles from Danish Forces
Past Page  (April 2009)  Afghan  Split  over  Women's  Rights  –  Not  by  Gender,  but  by  Education

Government
 Contracts 

Documents

New Pages (Dec 2009) EOD robot, OAG LAV-RWS, (Nov) ISR King Air, Ice floe rescue, OAG TRP, CV90 demo, (Oct.) CCV Req't,  Aerospace Plan, (Sept.) C-17 IRB, SADI, OFSV, UAV lease, MSPV.

Past Pages   (Aug) Danish CDS in Iqaluit , (July) FWSAR, C8A3 sight,  CCV,  Engineering support vehicles, LAV III upgrade, TAPV, Bv206, MEUF/Aircraft dry lease, Fabric hangar (May) KFL (Apr) SUAV, Leopard 2A4 CAD, (March) SOF, (Feb) MSPV Buffalo, LOSV, CASW, (Jan) MSVS, MRLS

Background
 Bulletins

All  Sections

New Pages (January 2010) LAV III LORIT, (Dec 2009) LAV-RWS, ISR King Air, (Oct.) WLAV-LE & Darfur AVGPs, (Sept) 6x6 AVGP family (Grizzly ISC, Husky ARV, and Cougar DFSV, (Aug.) HIAV.

Recent Pages  (June 2009) MOSV (RAT/Dynatrac), (Apr) FLCS, CCV Puma/CV90/Marder, AOPS, (March) SOV, (Jan) MSVS,  (Dec 2008) LRPRS, (Nov) Buffalo, CU-162, (Oct) Heron, (Sept) Tropco, (Aug) SOV/SOIQ, CC-150T , (June) TF ODIN, AOPS , (May) Sea King, LAV-H , (Feb.) LM C-130J

In  Detail


Past  Articles

New  Pages  (Jan 2010)  James Hasik: US Armour Options After FCS & Implications for Industry
New  Page  (Nov 2009)  CV90:  Denmark  prepares IFVs for Afghanistan  –  DND plans for CCVs

Past  Page  (Sept 2009)  Supporting Canadian Aerospace:  Bombardier's CSeries  as a Case Study
Past  Page  (July 2009)  CV90:  New Armoured Vehicles  –  Mobility and  Survivability  for the CF
Past  Page  (April 2009)  An Overview of  Denmark's Afghan  Deployment of  Leopard 2A5 tanks

Editorials
& Opinions

E&O Articles

New Page ( Jan  2010)  Is  this  the Way  a ' Just War '  Ends  –  Not  with  a  Bang  but  a  Buy-Off ?
New Page ( Jan  2010)  DART Response and the Haitian Earthquake, Op-Ed for The Ottawa Citizen
New Page ( Jan  2010)  James Hasik:  After the Future Combat Systems  –  Implications for Canada

Past Page (Dec  2009)  Parliament  should  Align  the CF Exit  from Afghanistan  with  NATO-ISAF
Past Page (Nov  2009)  Stryker  Brigade under CF command in Kandahar:  Canada  should  Stay On

Aerospace
Industry

Archives

New  Page  (October 2009)  Bombardier CSeries: Industry Canada Goals - Effectiveness Case Study
New  Page  (August 2009)  Viking's Guardian 400  Surveillance/Maritime Patrol/SAR Twin Otter

In a time of  economic crisis, there is a powerful threat  to Canadian sovereignty  –  much greater than religious fanaticism. This threat is the gradual bleeding away of the aircraft production that underpins our security. Citizens are wary of  politicians who allow us to become dependent on foreign suppliers.

 Modest
Proposals

Index

New  Page  (August 2009)   Keep it Simple and Add Armour: a new approach to HIAV conversions?
New  Page  (July 2009)   'Low and Slow' – CT-156 to Fill a Top Cover Gap for the Winter Olympics?
New  Page  (April 2009)   Armour for the Economy  –  Refurbished  German  Marder IFVs  as CCV?

Past Pages  (December 2008)  Armour for the Economy  –  LAVs  as Stimulation and  Job Creation ?
(November 2008)  FWSAR and Arctic Transport , (July 2008)  AT-6B for CF COIN ?, and  TF ODIN