Message from CDS and DM, 26 September 2024 A New Era for the Cyber Domain: Launch of the CAF Cyber Command — Originally published by: The Maple Leaf Today, we […]
By Kate E. Todd, 20 September 2024. On September 10, 2024, OSI Maritime announced that is has been awarded a contract by Innovation, Science, and Economic Development Canada to begin […]
By Dan Middlemiss, 20 August 2024 It was not many years ago when some in this Forum were holding out hope for the next ‘magic bullet’ for Canadian warships, and […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 12 March 2024 The Department of National Defence has released its Artificial Intelligence Strategy. In the Introduction, CDS General Wayne Eyre and DND Deputy Minister Bill […]
New Naval Weapons: Leaving the RCN Behind? Dr. Ann Griffiths In the past few years, we’ve seen some interesting developments in naval (and land) warfare. The Ukrainian armed forces have […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 8 February 2023 In 1977 Ken Booth outlined roles for naval forces – what has become known as Booth’s Triangle. This ‘triangle’ illustrates the roles of […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 2 December 2021 Both Russia and China have been hard at work developing and now testing hypersonic weapons. They both claim success in their recent tests. […]
By Dr. Ann Griffiths, 13 September 2021 Technology marches inexorably onward. Resistance is futile! Or is it? It’s interesting to see that the President of the US International Longshoremen’s Association […]
Media release, 16 March 2021 Following the recent announcements by Ultra of contract awards for the Hull Mounted Sonar (HMS) and Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) subsystems on the Canadian Surface […]
David Dunlop, 22 January 2021 Now that both Canada and Spain have signed contracts for SPY-7 Radars for both the CSC and F110 Frigates, it seems fitting to discuss total […]
David Dunlop, 13 January 2021. The USN will deploy its first High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) integrated on an operational Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer […]
Dan Middlemiss, 10 January 2021 The US Congressional Research Service has released an update on the USN’s plans to accelerate the procurement of Large Unmanned Surface and Undersea Vehicles [1]. […]
David Dunlop, 17 December 2020. How Canada got to the point of selecting the BAES Lockheed Martin (LM) Type 26 Frigate as the successful bidder for the RCN’s new Canadian […]
Old Sailor, 21 November 2020. In late 2018 United States (U.S.) Government Accountability Office (GAO) produced an interesting report on cybersecurity in U.S. DOD Weapon Systems. It’s relevant to the […]
How do data, emails, money transfers and digital communications travel to Europe or Asia? Virtually all trans-oceanic data now travel by undersea fibre-optic cables, not via satellites. Undersea cables have […]
David Dunlop, 25 October 2020. Apparently the British have decided to use a Direct Energy Weapon (DEW) laser system on the Type 26 frigate starting in 2023 (see below). Will […]
In case you haven’t been paying attention, Canada is building new ships for the navy. We hear about design, capabilities, timetables, numbers and especially costs. But we don’t hear a […]
There may be much uncertainty in the world today but one thing we can count on is that technology will continue to change. And that means that military forces will […]
Konrad Mech, 14 August 2020 Some readers may be interested in an article I wrote, recently published in SITREP, the Journal of the Royal Canadian Military Institute, titled “Automation, Autonomy, […]
Dan Middlemiss, 19 July 2020. Will the Canadian Navy ride the robotic wave of the future? Maybe the future has already arrived. The United States Navy (USN) recently awarded a […]
