“CAF – Canadian Armed Forces”

Canada confirms purchase of 26 HIMARS rocket launchers from U.S. government

A little over a month after the Pentagon revealed it had ordered a batch of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) for several allied countries, including Canada, the Liberal government has now publicly acknowledged the purchase.

Defence Minister David McGuinty, in a statement on Tuesday, said 26 of the highly sought artillery systems will be acquired for the Canadian Army.

The $2.6-billion purchase is being made directly from the U.S. government and includes a preliminary operational stock of munitions, spare parts, training and support services.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2026June 3, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

South Korea boosts submarine bid with ‘Project Beaver’ hydrogen truck proposal

OTTAWA – The secret weapon in South Korea’s bid to win the lucrative submarine contract is code named “Project Beaver.”

Facing market conditions that blocked it from bringing an electric vehicle plant to Canada, the South Koreans drafted a plan to manufacture hydrogen long-haul freight trucks and build dozens of charging stations in Canada, beginning in 2030. The proposal was submitted as part of Hanwha’s bid for the submarines, and the details were kept under wraps until now.

“Project Beaver” will use the technology developed by Hyundai Motors and transplant it to Canada.

by Blazingcatfur•June 3, 2026June 3, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

Canada considers cancelling part of U.S. F-35 order to buy 60 Swedish Gripen fighters.

Canada is considering a major overhaul of its fighter modernization plan, according to a May 30, 2026, report by La Presse, indicating Ottawa may replace much of its planned 88 F-35 fleet with roughly 60 Saab Gripen fighters while retaining 30 F-35As. This potential shift to a Canada mixed fighter fleet aims to reduce reliance on US defense supply chains and political leverage while preserving core fifth-generation capabilities for NORAD and NATO operations.

h/t GW

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2026June 2, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCAF", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Patriotism will drive Canadians into mobilization force, military report says

The Canadian military believes patriotism, along with distinct uniforms and other benefits, could prompt members of the public to volunteer for a new 300,000-strong reserve force to be used in national emergencies.

Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan has been promoting the plan that would create a pool of volunteers who were minimally trained.

by Blazingcatfur•June 2, 2026June 1, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

All for one: Norway, Germany sell Canada on shared submarine fleet

Both Norway and Germany invoked an all-for-one, one-for-all approach as they this week sharpened their public and private pitches for Canada to select the Type 212CD as the navy’s next submarine.

Both long-standing NATO allies, the two European powers are now putting more emphasis on what it means for Arctic and North Atlantic security for three nations to operate the same boat.

“We are thinking of the submarine fleet not as a Norwegian fleet and a German fleet and a Canadian fleet, we were thinking of a common fleet,” Marte Gerhardsen, the state secretary to Norway’s minister of defence, told CBC News in an interview this week.

by Blazingcatfur•May 31, 2026May 30, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

Canada is ‘on notice’: Ottawa turns to Saab as U.S. defence pressure builds

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Canada has put more than $65 billion toward defence and security over the past year and reached NATO’s 2 per cent of GDP benchmark — but that is no longer enough for Washington.

The United States has paused its participation in the Permanent Joint Board on Defense (PJBD), a World War II–era U.S.-Canada defence board.

by Blazingcatfur•May 29, 2026May 28, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars"

Germany pledges four submarines by 2036 in high-stakes pitch to Canada

Should the Liberal government decide to go with the ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) bid, the German shipbuilder has now pledged to deliver four Type 212-CD submarines to the Canadian Navy by 2036, the country’s defence minister tells CBC News.

Boris Pistorius said Wednesday that he has every confidence that the company will meet the delivery goal, which emerged early on as one of the major competitive differences between TKMS and South Korea’s Hanwha Ocean shipyard.

by Blazingcatfur•May 28, 2026May 28, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

German submarine bid promises Canada $86B economic boost and tens of thousands of jobs

An average of up to 50,000 jobs could be created in Canada over the next five years should the federal government opt to buy the German-made Type 212CD submarine, CBC News has learned.

Up until this point in the fierce competition over the navy’s new submarines, both the German and Norwegian governments and the builder, ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), have been reluctant to reveal strict details of the potential economic benefits that could accrue from their proposal.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Germany

Canada negotiating to buy Saab’s GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft

Canada has entered into negotiations with Saab to buy its GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Wednesday.

He revealed the plan at the opening of the annual arms trade show CANSEC in Ottawa.

“With a suite of advanced sensors and mission systems, Saab’s GlobalEye will be a key resource for the Canadian Armed Forces to detect and deter threats across the Arctic,” Carney told the audience of defence contractors and military officials.

by Blazingcatfur•May 27, 2026May 27, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Military to force disclosure of sexual, romantic relationships with a ‘power imbalance’

The Canadian Armed Forces is requiring members to disclose relationships of a personal nature with a subordinate.

Military personnel must from now on proactively report to their superior any “emotional, romantic, sexual or family relationship” that involve people of different rank, seniority, position or experience.

The directive covers both new and existing relations.

This is another Louise Arbour recommendation said to ease progress through the ranks of Women and I suppose Trannies.

Sounds like it will create more problems than it solves.

by Blazingcatfur•May 26, 2026May 26, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

South Korea’s Hanwha showcases submarine as Ottawa mulls multibillion-dollar contract

The South Korean submarine ROKS Dosan Ahn Chang-ho arrived off British Columbia’s coast on Saturday in a flashy showcase of Hanwha Ocean’s bid to secure Canada’s multibillion-dollar submarine contract.

The vessel is visiting Victoria and will take part in joint anti-submarine exercises with the Royal Canadian Navy.

The newly built 3,000-ton KSS-III submarine made the historic 14,000-kilometre trans-Pacific voyage to demonstrate its long-endurance capabilities to Canadian decision-makers.

by Blazingcatfur•May 24, 2026May 23, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "RCN", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pentagon doubles down on Canada rebuke with demand for NATO spending road map, F-35 decision – proposed Carignan NATO makeover threatened

The Pentagon wants to see Canada articulate a clear plan on how the country intends to meet NATO’s new military spending benchmark before resuming binational defence planning co-operation.

The absence of a plan to spend 3.5 per cent of Canada’s gross domestic product on the military, plus an additional 1.5 per cent of GDP on defence infrastructure, appears to be at the heart of this week’s suspension of the U.S.–Canada Permanent Joint Board on Defence (PJBD).

Senior Pentagon officials, speaking on background Thursday to mostly Canadian journalists, also cited the absence of a decision on whether to proceed with the full purchase of American-made F-35 fighter jets as another major irritant.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 22, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", "Canada - USA Tariff Wars", Canada, NATO, USA

John Ivison: Canadian troops are steeling to fight Russia. Will Ottawa back them?

An extraordinary exchange with potentially dramatic consequences for Canada took place at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday.

Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s potato-faced permanent representative at the UN, told the council that his country’s intelligence agency believes Latvia is deploying Ukrainian drones on its territory, with the intention of attacking Moscow.

“Membership of NATO will not protect you from just retaliation,” he told Latvia’s ambassador, Sanita-Pavluta Deslandes, who dismissed the allegations as “completely baseless” and “dangerous lies.”

Carney’s foreign policy means we will continue to fund Ukraine while siding with Russia and China in the coming war against the USA.

by Blazingcatfur•May 22, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Canadians want defence dollars spent on Canadian-owned firms, not U.S. companies or their subsidiaries

Canadians strongly support investing in domestically owned defence companies and oppose relying on American companies to build equipment for the Canadian military, according to a new public opinion poll released May 21.

The research was done for the Alliance of Canadian Defence Companies (ACDC), an industry-led trade association and lobbying group representing wholly Canadian-owned defence builders and suppliers. The alliance represents more than 200 Canadian-owned and Canadian-controlled defence companies across aerospace, maritime, land, cyber and other defence sectors.

by Blazingcatfur•May 21, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Festung Ottawa: Military asks personnel in capital region to return field gear, citing ‘critical equipment shortages’

The Canadian Armed Forces are asking military personnel in the National Capital Region to return some field gear, including vests to hold body armour, to address what the Forces describe as “critical equipment shortages” for deployed operations.

A May 13 e-mail from National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, obtained by The Globe and Mail, cites this inventory shortfall.

What timing! Tweet translation – Translated from Latvian

Thank you, Canada🇨🇦🤝🇱🇻!
Foreign Minister @AnandAnandMP announced that Canada will invest 64 million euros in the development of military infrastructure in Latvia.

What about Canada's military? Military asks personnel in capital region to return field gear, citing ‘critical equipment shortages’ https://t.co/Q8UwSXAwbi https://t.co/3d4jMfBQxm pic.twitter.com/twTLSGzGke

— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) May 21, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•May 21, 2026May 21, 2026•0•"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government