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Canadian military equipment vulnerable to cyberattacks, officials say

March 6, 2020 Lee Berthiaume - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – Canada and the United States are working together to make their high-tech military equipment less hackable, top defence officials said in Ottawa Thursday, but they have a lot of work to do. Speaking to the Ottawa Conference on

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Canadian defence plan calls for cyber and drone attacks to meet 21st century threats

June 8, 2017 Mike Blanchfield - THE CANADIAN PRESS

OTTAWA – Canada will add hundreds of new elite special forces commandos, wage offensive cyberwarfare attacks and deploy armed drones to international battlefields as part of its military response to new global security threats. The hotly anticipated new defence policy

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Tensions in Eastern Europe prompt Canadian military deployment to Latvia

July 8, 2016 Lee Berthiaume - THE CANADIAN PRESS

WARSAW, Poland – Canada is deploying what the Liberal government describes as its largest sustained military contingent to Europe in more than a decade, as NATO prepares for a protracted standoff with a resurgent Russia. In Poland, Prime Minister Justin

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Move over drones, driverless cars, unmanned ship up next

May 3, 2016 Julie Watson - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN DIEGO – It’s not only drones and driverless cars that may become the norm someday -ocean-faring ships might also run without captains or crews. The Pentagon on Monday showed off the world’s largest unmanned surface vessel, a self-driving 132-foot