Four Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) CF-18 Hornet fighter jets have arrived in Romania for a four-month deployment under NATO's enhanced Air Policing mission. The Canadian aircraft and about 135 supporting Canadian Armed Forces personnel will be based at the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base, near...
That has left experts confused, given how intertwined the two organizations are, with much of the work of the Defence Department directly impacting military management, operations and procurement. “I’m trying to think of what DND spending would be unrelated to the CAF,” said David Perr...
In the mid 1990s, a reorganization and consolidation occurred within the Canadian Military. Several bases were either downsized, merged or closed and as a result, Detachment Penhold closed in 1995. The former base is now the community of Harvard Park. The communications facility was automated and...
Canadian air force officials said there were no munitions on board the craft, which were apparently involved in training maneuvers. Advertisement The crash is expected to rekindle a debate over the dozens of military training flights crisscrossing West Germany’s skies each day....
Top Aces provides the Canadian Air Force, the U.S. Air Force, and the Australian Air Force aircraft that simulate enemy combat threats, also known as the “Red Force”: its aircraft and pilots imitate enemy aircraft and practice interception drills against “Blue Force,” or the military. Th...
After completing basic training in British Columbia, Hansen began a 4-year bachelor's degree in space science at the Royal Military College (initially in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., then graduating from the branch in Kingston, Ont. in 1999.) He completed CF-18 fighter pilot training in...
A Canadian frigate taking part in a NATO exercise in the Black Sea was buzzed by Russian military jets off the southern coast of Ukraine on Sunday. Article content [np_storybar title=”Kelly McParland: Moscow threatens to hold itself hostage over tightened sanction...
The Russian Tu-142 is a maritime patrol variation of what was once one of the most distinctive and feared Cold War aircraft in the Soviet military — the Tu-95, a strategic bomber given the NATO codename Bear, with its four turboprop engines on steeply swept-back wings a...
Canada soldiers “may therefore be faced with decisions about what to do with information that bears the taint of torture on a regular basis,” Neve said, so “the need for extra vigilance to ensure that the Canadian military is not implicated in torture is all the greater. Ad...
Canada’s military went shopping for second-hand drones last year as it tried to fast track its attempts to acquire a fleet of unmanned aircraft. But the Canadian F…