By David Pugliese Ottawa Citizen     The time and cost needed to arm the Canadian Forces Heron unmanned aerial vehicles played a major factor in shooting down the idea making the rounds in the Air Force earlier this year, Defence Watch has...

Defense News reports that one of the Italian Air Force’s 22 C-130Js crashed during a training flight.  As crew were making a practice approach to the runway at Pisa military airport, the transport plane plowed onto nearby train tracks and burst into...

  The U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command, in support of the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command (USASAC), has awarded a $2.2 billion U.S. contract to General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada for 724 Light Armored Vehicles. The deal was...

From the Canadian Forces:   A Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) exchange officer has recently returned from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan with the Canadian Forces. In this first-of-its-kind initiative between Canada and Jamaica,...

From GD and Marport:    OTTAWA and ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, -- General Dynamics Canada, a pioneer in the development of military acoustics processing and display solutions, and Marport C-Tech Ltd., a leading sonar manufacturer for underwater...