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Canada's Army Page

Canada's Army might be alot smaller then it was a few years ago, but it has still been getting new hardware like the Lav 2 and 3 over the last few years.

Remember alot of these units have different variants armed with different systems for example the Bisons.

Main Battle Tank's (114)

Leopard 1 (114 in service)
114 MBT
8-armoured recovery vehicle Taurus
9-engineer vehicle Badger
9-vehicle bridge layer Beaver

Air Defense (146 sams, 20 AAA)

ADATS (36 in service)

Oerlikon 35mm Twin Field Air Defence Gun (20 in service)

Javelin (110 missile systems)

Anti-Armour Weapons (2000 +??)

Eryx (435 complete weapon systems)

84mm Carl Gustav, M2 and M3 (1,431)

Tow (#?)

TOW Under Armour (TUA) (72)

M72 (????)

Mortars (160 +?)

m19 60mm Mortar (# ?)

81mm Mortar C3 (160)

Artillery (290-300)

M109A4/A4+ Medium Self Propelled 155mm Howitzer (76 in service)

105 C1 Towed Howitezer (upgraded to c3, i think??? )

105mm C3 Towed Howitzer (97 in service)

105mm LG1 MkII Howitzer (28 in service)

APC's (1600-1700)

M113 (About 1045 in service)

Grizzly (269 in service)

Bison (199 in service)
149- APCs
18- command post vehicles
16- 81mm mortar vehicles
16- maintenance vehicles

Mobile Tactical Vehicle Light * Note i am not %100 sure if this should be called a APC, will find out when more info is known.

Light Armoured Reconnaissance (563+)

LAV-2 Coyote (203 in service)

LAV-3 kodiak (360 in first order, around 240 more on order)

Close Fire Support Vehicles (195)

Cougar (195 in service)

Maintenance and Recovery Vehicles (27+)

Husky Wheeled Maintenance and Recovery Vehicle (WMRV) (27 in service)

ATV (100)

Bv 206 (100 in service)
78- cargo vehicles
12- BV 2061 Command Post
10- BV 2063 Anti-tank TOW

Support and Transport Vehicles

Iltis (2500 in service)

LSVW (2879 in service)

MLVW (2769 in service

HLVW (1212 in service)

ROWPU (22 in service)

M1010 CUCV (???)

M548 Cargo Carrier (???)

Land Aviation Helicopters (100)

Bell CH-146 Griffon (100 in service) *Note-under control of the army, i have it listed in the air section too.