RICHARDSON, Texas—A Texas-based optical systems contractor has inked a $1-million deal to provide new sights for the Canadian military’s fleet of LAV III combat vehicles. According to Optex ...

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces pose with the LAV III monument in Conception Bay South, commemorating the lives of those lost during the war in Afghanistan. (Nick Ward/CBC) ...

Retired Gen. Rick Hillier to chair strategic advisory group, to be made up of former military commanders, supporting and advising Ukraine's volunteer reserve forces 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto ...

A third generation light-armoured vehicle (LAV III) was installed to honour the 40,000 Canadian soldiers who served in Afghanistan between 2001 and 2014, including the 158 who died.

The news follows the deaths Sunday of six Canadians killed when their Canadian LAV III armoured vehicle hit a powerful land mine near a village in western Kandahar province on Sunday afternoon ...

Data Cable of Orangeville, Ont., has received a $1.89 million subcontract with General Dynamics Land Systems for the LAV-111 upgrade project. More from the Data Cable news release: ...

A Canadian LAV (light armoured vehicle) at ther forward operating base near Panjwaii, Afghanistan, on Nov. 26, 2006. (Bill Graveland/The Canadian Press) ...

LAV III: Tough but not impregnable A 1.27-cm thick layer of steel reinforced with Kevlar and ceramic-tile armour provides protection from standard armour-piercing shells and a range of explosives ...

The Town of Cobourg has been awarded a Light Armoured Vehicle III (LAV) Monument to honour the service and sacrifice of the Canadian Armed Forces in Afghanistan. It will arrive in the fall of 2019 to ...

Five soldiers have died in rollovers of their LAV III armoured vehicles in Afghanistan but the military remains bullish about the machine and analysts say it’s a matter of accidents will happen.

LAV II Bison armoured personnel carrier «Bison» — an eight-wheeled armoured vehicle based on the LAV II, which was developed in 1990 to transport an infantry division of the Canadian Army. It is ...

The Ukrainians say they need a fighting vehicle with a 25 millimetre chaingun, which is the main armament on a LAV VI and the older (now decommissioned) LAV III, which the Canadian army used in ...