They were. Amethyste and Perle were built (funny enough under the Améthyste program) to address these issues. The rest of the Rubis-class was further rebuilt to match this standard.
Building heavy trucks is definitely something we can and should be doing more of in Canada. Unfortunately at the moment, the only large scale truck builder is American owned Paccar in Quebec. And they don't have any defense offerings.
There is an interesting Canadian owned start up out in Donald BC, Edison Motors. They will be building heavy duty logging and oilfield trucks and I think that could very easily be developed into an armored variant for the army once they have their factory up and running.
Indeed. Our capacity is limited, but it is there, and the foundations are there to undertake a program even if licensed. As for Edison? They want to get into defence, and plan to jump into it. However I can't speak to the plans themselves.
Paccar (Kenworth/Peterbuilt) has a factory in Ste-Thérèse QC and collaborated with SAAB-Scania in the past. Just saying….anything is possible!
I heard the Rubis class were verry noisey. Maybe a good thing we didn’t end up with them.
They were. Amethyste and Perle were built (funny enough under the Améthyste program) to address these issues. The rest of the Rubis-class was further rebuilt to match this standard.
Building heavy trucks is definitely something we can and should be doing more of in Canada. Unfortunately at the moment, the only large scale truck builder is American owned Paccar in Quebec. And they don't have any defense offerings.
There is an interesting Canadian owned start up out in Donald BC, Edison Motors. They will be building heavy duty logging and oilfield trucks and I think that could very easily be developed into an armored variant for the army once they have their factory up and running.
Indeed. Our capacity is limited, but it is there, and the foundations are there to undertake a program even if licensed. As for Edison? They want to get into defence, and plan to jump into it. However I can't speak to the plans themselves.
I understand the Edison guys have done some nice work….be nice for someone to integrate them into CAF work.
I think defense is something they are trying to break into. Their planning to bring a truck to CANSEC this year from what I've heard.
We use Ariba where I work. I don't think anyone can get away from it. SAP does stand for Suffering And Pain after all...
Arent any MSVS replacements going to have their own separate competition with a presumably unknown result?