Podcast: Conversation with Tony March, CEO of Babcock Canada, at CANSEC
5 June 2026 Tony March, CEO of Babcock Canada, sat down with Stewart Webb on the 2nd day of CANSEC – 28 May 2026. They discussed the government’s renewed interest…
CANSEC 2026: Optimism and Trepidation
4 June 2026 CANSEC comes at the end of May every year, but this one was very different from previous ones. The event is held by the Canadian Association for…
LaFlesche: From Oka’s Shadow to Canada’s Defence Supply Chain
26 May 2026 *Article submitted ahead of CANSEC 2026 by LaFlesche Thirty-six years after Canadian troops deployed on Mohawk territory, a precision manufacturer from Kahnawàːke is supplying components to General…
Podcast – Canadian Defence Procurement: F-35s, Gripens and Submarines – Oh My
21 April 2026 Stewart and Chris talk about a requested topic: Canadian Defence Procurement. Now, many wanted a show-off discussion between the F-35 and the Gripen, but we wanted to…
Report – From the Depths: Getting the Victoria-class Submarine Replacement Right
28 October 2025 For multiple governments, the Victoria-class submarine fleet has been a procurement curse. The subs have been on land more than at sea, undergoing extensive refits and numerous…
Canada’s Blue River Project could solve the West’s Tantalum vulnerability
From compact electronics like the phone in your pocket to the systems powering national defence, a little-known metal called tantalum is an irreplaceable component of modern life. This rare, blue-gray…
Trump’s India-Pakistan realignment will have international ramifications
13 August 2025 Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir spoke at a black-tie dinner hosted by a Pakistani-origin businessman in Florida on Saturday. There were close to 100 people at the…
China Targets the French Rafale Globally after Operation Sindoor
The latest India-Pakistan conflict is continuing, but it is in a very different form. French intelligence claims that Chinese embassies are working on discrediting the French Rafale fighter and attempting…
From CANSEC 2025 with Love
Written by Chris Murray & Stewart Webb The DefenceReport team was in full force at this year’s CANSEC, which was widely agreed to be the biggest and most successful thus…