{"id":27604,"date":"2026-08-12T15:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=27604"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:04:42","slug":"canadian-armed-forces-testing-drones-with-manufacturers-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/?p=27604","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Armed Forces testing drones with manufacturers Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Armed Forces is holding an event today with Canadian drone manufacturers to test their platforms in real-world scenarios.<\/p>\n<p>The event, called the RED COBALT Uncrewed Systems Accelerator, is being held at a NATO test centre in the Ottawa Valley set up for testing cutting-edge technologies.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is looking to quickly adopt more drones as the technology develops rapidly and becomes more important in modern warfare.<\/p>\n<p>Lt.-Gen. Darcy Molstad, commander of the Canadian Joint Forces Command, says this is an example of how the military must do business with industry to innovate swiftly.<\/p>\n<p>He says this kind of event puts military drone operators and industry experts developing the platforms in direct contact to discuss how they\u2019re being developed.<\/p>\n<p>Molstad is co-ordinating the Canadian Armed Forces\u2019 efforts to identify the types and mix of new uncrewed platforms the military will need, like the kinds of lower-cost drones that have been deployed in the Ukraine war.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/12018222\/canadian-armed-forces-drones\/' target='_blank'>Read the original article on globalnews.ca<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian Armed Forces is holding an event today with Canadian drone manufacturers to test their platforms in real-world scenarios. The event, called the RED COBALT Uncrewed Systems Accelerator, is being held at a NATO test centre in the Ottawa Valley set up for testing cutting-edge technologies. The federal government is looking to quickly adopt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureknowledge.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}