Canadian Army

The **Canadian Army** (or Canadian Armed Forces/CAF) is a playable free DLC faction in Squad. This faction is the fourth conventional army featured in the game. It was originally developed by fans of Squad as a modification for the game, but was later incorporated officially by OWI as DLC. This faction was added in the Alpha 15.3 update.

## Flag

The flag representing the Canadian Army in Squad is the Flag Of Canada, or unofficially called the Maple Leaf. The flag origin stems from a 1964 committee tasked to create a new Canadian flag, and the current in use is credited to George Stanley, who based his design off the Royal Military College of Canada. The red and white colours comes from the Royal Arms Of Canada (derived from Saint George's Cross, the Flag of England, who Canada still owes allegiance to as part of the Commonwealth under the United Kingdom) while the Maple Leaf stems from coats of arms from the 1800's (known as the Red Ensign)

## Kits and equipment

The Canadian Army is the first conventional faction to have the Sniper kit under the Specialist category, equipped with a bolt-action rifle. The faction also have access to plenty of long-range scope.

## In-game equipment

The Canadian Army/Canadian Armed Forces is armed with a strange mix of both US and European weaponry, some of which is produced locally in Canada and some of which is procured from friendly nations. The majority of their small arms are copies of US weapons, albeit produced in Canada by the Colt Canada Company. The Armoured Personnel Carriers and Infantry Fighting Vehicles in their inventory are all wheeled and based off of the same starting platform, the LAV 6.0. The Canadian Army has operated local variants of the LAV family since the late 1960s, with the older vehicles phased out as more modern versions became available. The LAV 2 was on the way out by the late 1990s, replaced by the LAV III, which served Canadians in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2011. By the end of 2019, the Canadian Army had received the last LAV 6 to have been upgraded from LAV III configuration. The Canadian Army's Main Battle Tank is the Leopard 2, with a combination of 2A6Ms and 2A4Ms in their inventory, although they only possess a total of 82 vehicles. Canada was the first nation to send tanks to Afghanistan, deploying Leopard 2s purchased from Germany, although Denmark and the United States later followed suite.

The major differences are in the vehicle gameplay. While the Russian Ground Forces and US Army both use tracked IFVs and wheeled APCs, and the British Army use all tracked vehicles, the Canadian Army LAV 6.0 combines the speed of an APC with the firepower of an IFV. While the BTR-80 & BTR-82A also do this, it is not as well armoured as the LAV 6.0 is, giving the Canadians the edge. This does also mean however that the Canadians have no current vehicle capable of an anti-tank role as the LAV 6.0 lacks ATGMs, much like the FV510.

While it may seem nonsensical that Canadians have access to the Mi-17 (or "CH-178"), the Canadian military did actually purchase 4 Mi-17s as a stopgap solution in 2009 when it was discovered that traveling around the heavily mined roads of Kandahar in ground vehicles was prohibitively dangerous. Within the next year, these 4 Hips would fly missions with every single Canadian unit embedded in Afghanistan that needed helicopters at some point. Eventually, the military delivered enough CH-148s and Chinooks, so they were put in storage where they remain. So, while unlikely that one would see Canadians flying an Mi-17, it's not impossible, and depending on the implied setting, might actually be decently likely.

### Weapons

#### **Small Arms**

* C7A2 - Assault Rifle
* C8A3 - Carbine
* C9A2 - Light Machine Gun
* C6A1 - Medium Machine Gun
* C14 Timberwolf - Sniper Rifle
* Hi-Power - Pistol

#### **Grenades and Launchers**

* C13 - Fragmentation Grenade
* M18 - Smoke Grenade
* M203 - Underbarrel Grenade Launcher
* M72A7 LAW - Rocket Launcher
* Carl Gustav M2 - Recoilless Rifle

#### **Emplacements**

* M2A1 - Heavy Machine Gun
* BGM-71 TOW - Anti-Tank Guided Missile
* M252 - Mortar

#### **Equipment**

* Bayonet2000 - Melee Weapon
* Entrenching Tool - Shovel
* M112 C4 - Explosive
* Field Binoculars - Binoculars

### Vehicles

#### **Boats**

* RHIB Transport
* RHIB Logistics
* RHIB M2

#### **Trucks**

* MSVS Transport
* MSVS Logistics

#### **Jeeps**

* M113A3 M2
* M113A3 C6
* TAPV M2
* TAPV C6
* LUVW M2
* LUVW C6
* LUVW Transport
* LUVW Logistics
* LUV-A1 Transport
* LUV-A1 Logistics

#### **Armored Personnel Carriers**

* LAV III M2 RWS
* LAV III C6 RWS
* M113A3 TLAV

#### **Air Supports**

* CH-146
* CH-178
* MQ-9 UAV\*
* A-10 Warthog\*

\*Commander Asset

## Divisions

**3 RCR**
CAF 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment
**LdSH**
 Vehicles

1x MSVS Truck Logistics
2x TAPV
4x UH-60M

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [10 mins]

2x LAV 6.0
4x Leopard 2A6M
2x Leopard 2A6M Caged
3x MSVS Truck Logistics

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [10 mins]

**1 CMBG**
CAF 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group
**3 PPCLI**
 Vehicles

3x LAV 6.0
1x LAV III C6 RWS
1x Leopard 2A6M
1x Leopard 2A6M Caged
3x MSVS Truck Logistics
1x TAPV
1x TAPV C6
2x UH-60M

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [6 mins]

3x MSVS Truck Logistics
3x MSVS Truck Transport
1x TAPV C6

**RNR**
CAF Royal Newfoundland Regiment
**Van Doos**
 Vehicles

2x LUV-A1 Logistics
4x LUV-A1 Transport
2x MSVS Truck Logistics
1x MSVS Truck Transport
1x TAPV C6

8x LAV 6.0
1x Leopard 2A6M
1x Leopard 2A6M Caged
3x MSVS Truck Logistics

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [10 mins]

**The Westies**
CAF Royal Westminster Regiment
**CCSB**
 Vehicles

2x LAV 6.0
3x MSVS Truck Logistics

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [10 mins]
6x TAPV [10 mins]

1x LAV III C6 RWS
1x LUV-A1 Logistics
5x MSVS Truck Logistics
1x UH-60M

Delayed Spawn
1x MSVS Truck Transport [10 mins]

## Gallery

### Full Release

* 2022 Holiday Blogpost

## External links

* Official website (archived)
* Canadian Armed Forces at Steam