Finding Fire: Canada Looks for Incoming Solutions

ARTHUR on Bv206:Fading away?(click to view larger) Fire location radars are valuable in high-end wars against heavy artillery and rocket salvos, and in counter-insurgency conflicts where incoming mortars and simpler rockets are a frequent hazard. While artillery tracking systems have existed for decades, tracking very small, fast-moving projectiles is no easy task. False positives can be a problem during a high-end war in Germany’s Fulda Gap, but they become a bigger problem during counter-insurgency campaigns. Canada has some radars of this type already, but their limitations were starting to chafe, and a new contract for counter-battery radars could be the result. A recent DSCA request adds impetus to that search – but will it come in time to make a difference? * Conundrums & Contenders * Contracts & Key Events Conundrums & Contenders Giraffe AMB radar(click to view full) Welcome to the other side. Canada’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams bought Vanguard Mk2 robots from a Canadian firm. American troops were uncompromisingly negative about the Vanguards, however, and the US Army had no national allegiance or past decisions to protect. They had already thrown the Vanguards out of theater, in favor of iRobot’s Packbot and QinetiQ’s TALON MTRS systems. Now, Canada […]