19 décembre 2023 | Local, Aérospatial
Canadian military buying armed drones for $2.49B | CBC News
After more than two decades of debate, Canada’s air force finally has a green light to acquire armed drones.
29 juin 2023 | Local, Autre défense
La ministre de la Défense Anita Anand rencontre son homologue britannique et annonce le déploiement naval de l’OTAN
Le 29 juin 2023 – Londres (Royaume‑Uni) – Défense nationale/Forces armées canadiennes
Aujourd’hui, l’honorable Anita Anand, ministre de la Défense nationale, a rencontré le très honorable Ben Wallace, secrétaire d’État à la Défense du Royaume‑Uni, à Londres. La ministre Anand a remercié le secrétaire d’État Wallace d’avoir accueilli les membres des Forces armées canadiennes déployés dans le cadre de l’opération UNIFIER pour former les soldats ukrainiens, de même que le détachement de l’Aviation royale canadienne à Prestwick, en Écosse, qui a livré plus de dix millions de livres d’aide militaire destinée à l’Ukraine. Au cours de leur réunion, les ministres ont discuté des priorités en vue du prochain Sommet de l’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN) à Vilnius, notamment le renforcement du flanc oriental de l’OTAN, l’aide militaire offerte à l’Ukraine et la posture de dissuasion et de défense de l’OTAN.
La ministre Anand a également annoncé que le 3 juillet, le Canada déploiera les navires canadiens de Sa Majesté (NCSM) Shawinigan et Summerside, qui quitteront leur port d’attache d’Halifax, en Nouvelle‑Écosse, pour aller rejoindre le 1er Groupe permanent de lutte contre les mines de l’OTAN (SNMCMG1) dans le cadre de l’opération REASSURANCE. Les deux navires comptent à leur bord des équipes de plongeurs-démineurs de la Marine royale canadienne provenant des Unités de plongée de la Flotte Atlantique et Pacifique, ainsi que des véhicules sous‑marins autonomes capables d’effectuer des opérations de recherche et de lutte contre les mines. La contribution des deux navires de défense côtière (NDC) de la classe Kingston dans le cadre des activités du SNMCMG1 témoigne de l’engagement continu du Canada à l’égard de la présence en mer continue à haut niveau de préparation de l’OTAN, et du rôle de premier plan joué par la Marine royale canadienne dans le renforcement de la sécurité dans les eaux européennes.
Au cours de sa visite au Royaume‑Uni, la ministre a également prononcé une allocution devant les membres du Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), où elle a parlé du soutien militaire offert par le Canada à l’Ukraine, de la modernisation du système de défense canadien, ainsi que des défis et des possibilités dans la région indo‑pacifique. En outre, la ministre Anand a rencontré M. Charles Woodburn, président‑directeur général de BAE Systems, elle s’est entretenue avec le très honorable David Lammy, secrétaire d’État fantôme aux Affaires étrangères, du Commonwealth et du développement, et elle a visité l’école de Liphook ou elle a rencontré des élèves de huit et neuf ans qui effectuent des recherches sur un camp d’entraînement canadien qui se trouvait à Bramshott pendant la Première Guerre mondiale.
Le Canada et le Royaume‑Uni entretiennent une relation de défense et de collaboration étroite de longue date façonnée par nos valeurs et nos croyances communes.
Citations
« Le Royaume‑Uni est l’un des alliés les plus proches et les plus importants du Canada. Je remercie le secrétaire d’État Wallace pour son accueil chaleureux dans le cadre de ma première visite officielle au Royaume‑Uni à titre de ministre de la Défense du Canada, ainsi que pour les discussions productives que nous avons eues sur une série de priorités mutuelles. Nos deux pays jouent un rôle de premier plan dans le soutien à l’Ukraine, et en tant que membres dévoués de l’Alliance de l’OTAN, nos deux pays demeureront unis pour faire face aux nouveaux défis en matière de sécurité. »
- L’honorable Anita Anand, ministre de la Défense nationale
Faits en bref
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La relation de défense et de sécurité entre le Canada et le Royaume‑Uni est enracinée dans l’histoire et favorisée par le fait que les deux pays sont des alliés de l’OTAN et qu’ils collaborent étroitement au sein d’organisations internationales, y compris les Nations Unies et le Commonwealth. Les liens entre le Canada et le Royaume‑Uni ont été tissés en temps de paix et de guerre, notamment pendant les deux guerres mondiales, en Corée et au cours de presque tous les grands conflits depuis plus d’un siècle, y compris en Afghanistan et en Libye.
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Depuis août 2022, le personnel des Forces armées canadiennes déployé au Royaume‑Uni a formé environ 2 000 recrues des forces armées de l’Ukraine, en collaboration avec l’opération INTERFLEX menée par le Royaume-Uni. Les cours dirigés par le Canada durent plusieurs semaines et portent sur des sujets tels que le maniement des armes, les premiers soins sur le champ de bataille, les techniques de campagne, les tactiques de patrouille et le droit des conflits armés.
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Depuis le début de 2022, le Canada s’est engagé à fournir plus de huit milliards de dollars en aide à l’Ukraine, y compris 1,5 milliard de dollars en assistance militaire. Cela comprend 288 missiles AIM-7, 10 000 munitions d’artillerie de 105 mm, huit chars de combat principaux Leopard 2A4 et un véhicule blindé de dépannage, un système national de missiles surface-air perfectionné (NASAMS) accompagné de munitions, 39 véhicules blindés d’appui tactique, des armes antichars, des armes légères, des obusiers M777 accompagnés de munitions, des caméras pour drones à haute résolution, des vêtements d’hiver et bien plus encore. Le Canada se joindra au centre de maintenance et d’entretien des chars Leopard 2 en Pologne et contribuera aux efforts multinationaux visant à former des pilotes et à assurer la maintenance et le soutien des F‑16 de l’Ukraine par la mise à profit de l’expertise canadienne dans ces domaines.
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22 avril 2024 | Local, Terrestre, Sécurité
Minister Blair to visit the Northwest Territories to discuss Budget 2024 and Our North, Strong and Free: A Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence
The Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of National Defence, will visit the Northwest Territories from April 23-25, 2024 to discuss Budget 2024 and Our North, Strong and Free: A Renewed Vision for Canada’s Defence
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19 octobre 2020 | Local, Naval, C4ISR
Canadian Navy : The Canadian Surface Combatant – More than Just a Ship
More than Just a Ship With the release of Canada's defence policy Strong, Secure, Engaged in 2017, the Government of Canada signaled its commitment to renewing the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) fleet. As part of an effort to deliver a Blue Water Navy built around the ability to sustain two naval task groups of up to four combatants and a joint support ship, supplemented when warranted by a submarine and maritime air assets, the government committed to the acquisition of 15 Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC). The effort to procure these vessels represents the centrepiece of the National Shipbuilding Strategy - the largest procurement in Canadian history - and certainly one of its most complex, spanning over three decades Lockheed Martin Canada, the successful bidder in a lengthy but fair, open and transparent bid process, proposed a CSC concept design based on the United Kingdom's (UK) Type-26 Global Combat Ship, currently under construction. With this selection, Canada joins the UK and Australia who are leveraging the Type-26 Global Combat Ship design into their future fleets. The CSC is Canada's next generation warship, which will eventually replace both the recently retired Iroquois-class and today's modernized Halifax-class. Capabilities from both classes will be modernized and future-proofed to ensure not only that systems stay relevant for years to come, but more importantly that tomorrow's sailors have the equipment they need when sent into harm's way. It forms part of a broad vision of defence capabilities that will serve Canada's defence interests well into the latter half of the century. A Warship at its Core At its core, the CSC is being designed to be combat capable through the marriage of high-tech equipment and highly trained RCN sailors - able to conduct air, surface, sub-surface and information warfare missions simultaneously. The crews will be trained and organized to be capable of conducting warfare operations 24/7 and to both fight the ship and respond to any damage sustained simultaneously. Survivability, a key principle that shaped CSC requirements from the outset, refers to the ability to protect the crew onboard, maintain combat effectiveness under fire, and bring our sailors home safely on completion of the mission. This principle is reflected in ship requirements that include the military design standards for critical shipboard systems, levels of protection from blast and fragmentation, reduced signatures, a battle damage control system and, of course, the full suite of sensors and weapons the ship carries to defeat threats. The Operational Capability of CSC, or its ability to deliver credible and relevant effect, was also top of mind to ensure that the ship could deliver on the mission set outlined in Canada's defence policy Strong, Secure, Engaged. The design and capability fit aims to deliver a highly versatile ship that is multi-role in nature, and that affords the greatest range of capability. This outcome translates directly into agility and responsiveness for the RCN, including re-rolling a deployed ship from one mission to another, without returning to port. The ship will be able to a perform a broad range of missions with North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), 5-Eyes nations, NATO, coalition partners, and here in Canada with other government departments and agencies. CSC will have decisive combat power for operations at sea, and in support of joint-force operations ashore. The versatility of the design will also ensure the RCN is well enabled to support missions for counter-piracy, counter-terrorism, intelligence and surveillance, interdiction and embargo operations, as well as provide support for humanitarian assistance, Search and Rescue, and law/sovereignty enforcement. The ship's capability suite includes: Four integrated management systems, once each for the combat system, platform systems, bridge and navigation systems and its cyber-defence system A digital beam forming Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) radar and solid state illuminator capability The USN Cooperative Engagement Capability sensor netting system A vertically launched missile system supporting long, short and close-in missile defence, long-range precision naval fires support and anti-ship engagements A 127mm main gun system and dual 30mm gun mounts A complete Electronic Warfare and countermeasures suite A fully integrated underwater warfare system with bow mounted sonar, towed low frequency active and passive sonar, lightweight torpedoes and decoys Fully integrated communications, networking and data link capabilities CH-148 Cyclone multi-role helicopter, multi-role boats and facilities for embarking remotely piloted systems. A Node in a System of Systems More broadly speaking, the CSC will also serve as a node in a broader system of systems, all of which are geared to ensuring that Canada is strong at home, secure in North America and engaged in the world. This system includes space-based assets, intelligence networks, advanced Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) collection platforms, and shore-based command and control facilities. As part of this approach, the RCN will also take interoperability to the next level, enabling systems integration both with other Canadian Armed Forces capabilities and our closest allies. Designed with a communications and information systems architecture that will enable it to share significant amounts of data, it will contribute to a modernized North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), and better enable the RCN to leverage and support its closest allies on operations abroad. With its sensor-netting capability, which is also employed in the United States and Royal Australian navies, the CSC will have a significantly greater ability to defend itself against highly sophisticated threats. Finally, the ship will be digitally integrated with the RCN/CAF/DND enterprise ashore, in keeping with the RCN's Digital Navy strategy. It is being carefully designed from the outset with digital requirements in mind, with a view to leveraging new technologies in maintenance and materiel management, supply chain management, logistics, training, operational support, as well as operations. A Workplace and Home for Tomorrow's Sailors Ships are only as good as the sailors who sail them and going to sea has always involved some level of hardship, whether from the effects of the sea, the lack of privacy or simply the separation from family and loved ones. In keeping with an intent to ensure the Navy affords a safe, welcoming and inclusive workplace to all its members, the RCN is looking at the hardships of going to sea and aiming to lighten them in the CSC. Over the past several months a small team, comprised mostly of junior-level sailors, looked at the CSC design through a habitability lens and provided advice on those areas that sailors felt were most important to them. The team surveyed close to 3,000 members of the RCN and looked at everything from privacy, personal storage, sleeping quarters, mixed messing, mess occupancy, heads and wash-places, laundry facilities, digital connectivity, fitness facilities, recreation lounges and dining. The three most significant priorities highlighted were in the areas of privacy, the ability to digitally connect with families ashore and improved fitness facilities. The RCN is now working to see how this feedback might be incorporated into the design of CSC, to produce a ship that can better accommodate tomorrow's sailors and ensure that we remain committed to People First, Mission Always. A Significant Opportunity for Canadian Industry What lies ahead for a world-class industry team, led by Irving Shipbuilding Incorporated, Lockheed Martin Canada and BAE Systems, truly represents an immense opportunity. It all begins with ensuring the best equipment and right level of integration to enable and protect sailors in the future, so they can deliver on their mission. Next is the opportunity that comes within each line of effort related to the overall program: naval design, systems integration, shipbuilding, training development, and shore-based infrastructure. In each area, industry partners have a chance to adapt world-leading best practices, introduce new innovative approaches in their respective areas and leverage the best in modern technologies to make value-chain improvements. For example, the RCN is already involved with the CSC industry team in using a model-based systems engineering approach that will establish the foundation for the eventual creation of a digital twin of the ship, as well as a baseline digital thread that will facilitate the Navy's ability to capitalize on a variety of digital technologies in the future. The last area of opportunity lies in capitalizing on the benefits that come with three nations all building a surface combatant using the same baseline design. Examples include pursuing supply chain economies of scale, cooperating on design and engineering packages, sharing lessons learned in design and build practices, and collaborating on the development of training products. These areas of opportunity were spurred by Canada's National Shipbuilding Strategy, which aims to not only deliver Canada's Navy and Coast Guard the ships they need, but also to create a sustainable marine sector in Canada, and contribute economic benefits and highly skilled jobs to Canada's economy. Conclusion The CSC is more than just a ship - it represents a national endeavour to safeguard Canada's defence needs. It is being designed from the keel up to be multi-purpose in its capabilities, affording Canada the ability to deploy it across a broad spectrum of mission sets, and agility to adapt to a new mission, in hours not days or weeks. It is a significant component in a much broader system of systems, where interoperability is being elevated to integration, and digital technologies and data are leveraged as capabilities. It offers a floating environment that balances hard steel and high tech against the habitability needs and desires of today's young sailors - a home away from home. And finally, it offers a tremendous opportunity for Canadian industry to take on a complex challenge and deliver in a world-class and innovative way. The Canadian Surface Combatant - the right ship for the RCN and Canada. https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/Canadian-Navy-The-Canadian-Surface-Combatant-ndash-More-than-Just-a-Ship--31556116/