Ottawa seeks options to replace Canadian military’s aging fleet of tanks - BERITAJA

The Canadian military is formally asking the defence manufacture to place what companies could connection to either upgrade aliases switch Canada’s aging fleet of tanks.

The national authorities published a petition for accusation from imaginable suppliers truthful Ottawa could analyse options disposable connected the marketplace and commencement to tie up plans for early armoured onshore conveyance fleets.

A Canadian Army archive published past twelvemonth called “Inflection Point” warns that decades of good tuning the subject for counter-insurgency and bid operations had the side-effect of creating superior gaps successful the military’s shop of dense arms.

The army’s armoured regiment has been near pinch a azygous squadron of decades-old Leopard tanks.

Modern warfare, arsenic demonstrated by Russia’s warfare against Ukraine, has led to accelerated advances successful anti-tank drones and vessel armour.

The procurement projects successful the petition for accusation are listed nether “heavy direct-fire modernization,” which would see tanks, betterment vehicles and combat-support vehicles, arsenic good arsenic “medium cavalry vehicles” for a communal light-armoured conveyance fleet.