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Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Canada. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Dassault Aviation Congratulates Trudeau and Pitches Rafale

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In the days following the 2015 Federal Election, and the election of a Majority Liberal Government, there were congratulations pouring in fr...
Friday, October 23, 2015

8 Arctic Countries to Sign Coast Guard Treaty

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Article Written by By Bob Weber, The Canadian Press All eight Arctic nations — including Canada and Russia — are to sign a historic deal nex...
Friday, October 16, 2015

RCN In Talks To Lease Spanish AOR in 2016

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By David Pugliese and Esteban Villarejo of defensenews.com  Spain and Canada are negotiating a mutual logistic arrangement (MLSA) to deplo...
Wednesday, September 23, 2015

France announces sale of Mistral-Class ships to Egypt

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Earlier this week news came out that Canada had been actively persuing the purchase of the two Mistral-Class Heli-Carriers from France for t...
Friday, September 4, 2015

Refugee Crisis: CAF Can Help - Deploy Them

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In the wake of the recent tragic death of 3 year old Alan Kurdi, his brother and mother - there have been calls for Canada and the World do ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015

United for Ukraine: CAF to deploy 200 Troops to the Ukraine

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Defence Minister Jason Kenney and Chief of Defence Staff General Tom Lawson announced with Prime Minister Stephen Harper that the Canadian A...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Canada in Syria: CF-18's Conduct First Strike in Syria

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DND today informed Canadians that two RCAF CF-18's conducted their first air strikes against ISIS in Syria. Two CF-18's  used prec...

CAF hands over CTF-150 Command

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DND  announced yesterday that the CAF handed over command of Combined Task Force 150 (CTF-150) to France in a ceremony Manama, Bahrain. This...
Monday, April 6, 2015

CAF's Armoured Patrol Vehicle Delayed

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In 2009 the government announced a $1.2 billion program to purchase upwards to 500 new Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicles (TAPV) for the Cana...
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

HMCS Fredericton visits Agira War Cemetery

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The Royal Canadian Navy released news today that while deployed in the Mediterranean, the crew of  HMCS Fredericton  took an opportunity...

Canadian Spec. Ops wrap up in Malaysia

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Canadian Special Forces members have been in Malaysia, helping train Malaysian special forces for a while, and the closing ceremonies for th...
Wednesday, February 18, 2015

CAF Upgrades Leopard-2 Tanks for Germany

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It was in April 2007 that the CAF agreed to purchase/lease 120 Leopard-2 Tanks from Germany and the Netherlands. At the time, the purchase o...

Canada in Iraq - CF-18s Bomb ISIS IED Factory

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DND Released this afternoon that RCAF CF-18's bombed an ISIS Improvised Explosive Device factory on February 13 2015 near Hit, Iraq. ...
Thursday, February 12, 2015

CAF to the Ukraine? New Minister Hints at possibility

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The new Defence Minister Jason Kenney hinted late Wednesday that Canada is considering joining the United States in training the Ukrainian M...
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Canada in Iraq - CF-18's Bomb Four ISIS Fighting Positions

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DND updated Canadians on Tuesday on its progress against ISIS in Iraq. On Feb 6 2015, CF-18's while supporting Iraqi security forces o...
Monday, February 9, 2015

RCAF Hopeful for New SAR planes

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It has been more than 10 years since it was announced that the Canadian Governent would being looking at options to replace the DeHavilland ...

Misplaced or Misused in Kandahar? $513,000 Artillery Rounds Missing

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The Canadian Press released yesterday that during Canada's exit from Kandahar in 2011, not everything was accounted for. While there whe...
Friday, February 6, 2015

Canada, Ukraine,and Russia; Georgia as part of NATO?

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Following the NATO Summit yesterday, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson again told Russia to back off in Ukraine. NATO announced that it will ...
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Canada in Iraq - CF-18's Bomb Two ISIS Strategic Facilities

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February 5th 2015, It was revealed today by Defence Minister Rob Nicholson following the NATO meeting, that Canadian CF-18 Hornets had bom...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

New Franco-Canadian Defence Cooperation Council

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Defence Minister Nicholson and Minister of Defence Le Drian of France announced on Wednesday that Canada and France signed a technical arran...