In addition, the army will buy a counter\u002Ddrone system to be used for Operation Reassurance, the Canadian Forces mission in eastern Europe, according to the Feb. 3 briefing obtained by this newspaper.
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The moves to fast-track the purchases are being fueled by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Canadian Forces officials see that conflict as a way to highlight the need for the federal government to spend billions of dollars for new armaments. Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre has called on defence equipment firms to move to a war-footing to produce large amounts of equipment.
The army will also buy a mobile counter drone system to “ensure freedom of action for operations in the land domain for forces deployed on Op Reassurance,” Hardy added. The system would be designed to deal with mini and small drones.Approximately 1,400 Canadian Forces members are deployed in support of Operation Reassurance, making it Canada’s largest current international military operation. Around 700 of those are in Latvia.
In an interview with CBC News broadcast last month Eyre said such equipment “cannot arrive fast enough.” The army was outfitted in 1989 with a then state-of-the art air defence anti-tank system known as ADATS. It was purchased to protect bases in Germany against attack by the Russians, but, shortly after ADATS was delivered, the Cold War ended and the systems were shipped back to Canada. Faced with budget cuts ordered by the Conservative government, the army announced it was removing ADATS from service in 2012.
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