“We are overdue for a new anti-tank capability,” acknowledged Major Carl Gendron, who leads the Directorate of Land Requirements (DLR 5-1) dealing with small arms acquisition projects. Since the early 2000s, as priorities shifted from the Cold War to combat in Afghanistan, to potential conflict with peer adversaries, the Canadian Army has divested aging mounted and portable anti-tank systems and has yet to replace them with a more modern means of destroying tanks and fortified structures. The steady build-up of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles along Ukraine’s northern and eastern borders was a stark reminder of the relevance of anti-armour capability.
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