canadian army

When the demand exceeded the capacity of Daimler, Ford Canada, in Windsor Ontario, begun production of a local derivative. The "Scout Car, Ford Mk.I", also called the "Lynx armoured car". Almost identical, it was one foot taller because of the Ford transmission. The Ford engine was more...

Aircraft-Related Canadian 500-Series 'AN' Equipment Designations I've decided to post my compilation of Canadian numbers from the Army/Navy - and, later, Joint Electronics Type Designation Systems. I am not trying to list all equipment used by the RCAF, RCN, or Canadian Forces. Rather, I have...

Rifles Anti-Tank (Training Pattern) This is esoteric but I'm looking for more information about an anti-tank training weapon created at Esquimalt, British Columbia in 1941-42. This training device was created by modifying a service rifle to mimic the shape of a Canadian-made Rifle, Anti-Tank...

Check out this interesting photo: https://ingeniumcanada.org/ingenium/collection-research/collection-item.php?id=1970.1466.001 It purports to be the world's first mortar-locating radar, apparently a Canadian invention and produced at CAL's purpose-built plant in Scarborough (now row houses...

OTL in 1963, the Royal Canadian Navy received their first Sikorsky CH-124 Sea King Helicopters. They flew from Canadian ships for more than 50 years. I greased and refuelled Sea Kings on the flight decks of HMCS Athabaskan and HMCS Iroquois. I also washed innumerable GE-T58-8F engines...

Avro Canada Long Range Jet Transport Study.

Re my MapleHawk enquiry, there was a website up till last year called CASR - Canadian American strategic think tank and it listed current and potential DnD RCAF. Canadian Army and Navy equipment. Couple of ideas came out such as debating what the Canadian Coast Guard were going to pic re the...

I recently purchased a copy of the excellent 'The Otter Reconnaissance Car in Canadian Service' from Service Publications (www.servicepub.com), and, upon reading it, came across a reference to a 'Wolf' 8x8 heavy armoured car. This was unknown to me, so an Internet search was in order. All I...

Disney made "Stop that Tank" in 1943, for canadian Army on how to use a Tank rifle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlJD0pZp4eQ if that to dry material for you, try Tex Avery "Blitz Wolf" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGQWHqyFQQo

Reportedly there was a project in Canada during WW2 referred to as the "Universal Scout Car" or "General Utility Project", which was to replace both the Scout Cars and the Light Recce Cars of the Canadian army. The project is being mentioned here...

Hi, the Canadair CL-45 was ASW helicopter project,CL-52 was Boeing B-47B and CL-61 snow mobile project, what were the Canadair CL-65 (old design) and CL-212 ?.

An old book of mine about the British Army mentions that the Army in 1962 were looking at the Canadian Heller Rocket launcher and the Carl Gustav 84mm from Sweden to replace its bazookas. The UK chose the Carl Gustav. Does anyone have any info and pictures of the Canadian contender? UK 75

Some time ago in a website that in the meantime disappeared from the Internet I found several pictures of an armoured personnel carrier that had been designed (and built as a prototype) in Canada sometime in the 1950s. According to the website its designation was the XA-20. Unfortunately there...