Armed Forces through a wide vari-
ety of products, ranging from Close
Area Suppression Weapon system,
Leopard Training Tanks and Shield
Replacement with MASS for the Royal
Canadian Navy. More recently, Rhein-
metall Canada was awarded contracts
to provide the CAF with an Integrated
Soldier System, as well as the Medium
Range Radar, as part of its teaming
with ELTA, and the company is cur-
rently performing the final integration
and acceptance testing of the Tactical
Armoured Patrol Vehicles (TAPV) as
part of its partnership with Textron.
“ADATS had state-of-the-art laser
guided missiles and advanced electro-
optics for the time,” says Oehrli. “The
facilities [in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu]
The very first contract of Rheinmetall Canada (Oerlikon Aerospace back then) in the country was to manufacture and
service the Air Defence Anti Tanks System for the Low-Level Air Defence (LLAD) program.
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