{"id":132132,"date":"2026-07-16T18:47:05","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/132132\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:47:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:47:05","slug":"canada-to-invest-1-4b-in-armored-vehicles-in-partnership-with-gdls-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/132132\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada to invest $1.4B in armored vehicles in partnership with GDLS-Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada<\/a> will invest nearly 2 billion Canadian dollars, or 1.4 billion USD, to build 190 new Armoured Combat Support Vehicles (ACSVs) under a partnership between the Canadian Armed Forces and General Dynamics Land Systems<\/a>\u2013Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a more dangerous and divided world, Canada\u2019s government is ensuring the women and men of our Armed Forces get what they need, when they need it,\u201d Carney said following his public announcement of the deal today, according to a release<\/a> from the Canadian government.<\/p>\n

According to the release, the partnership will grow Canada\u2019s fleet of ACSVs from 360 to 550. The ACSVs are based on GDLS-Canada\u2019s light armoured vehicle (LAV) 6.0<\/a> and will replace the current LAV II Bison and M113 tracked LAV fleets, the Canadian government\u2019s website<\/a> reads. There are several use cases for the new ACSV which include: troop\/cargo transportation, ambulance services, maintenance and recovery, command post and more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The additional 190 ACSVs announced today will be used in training rotations at Canadian Armed Forces bases across the country, according to today\u2019s release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Further, the partnership will bolster jobs across the country, Carney said in a social media post<\/a> today.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThese will be feats of engineering \u2014 more than 6000 workers from more than 600 Canadian suppliers across the country will help design, build, and sustain them for years to come,\u201d he wrote in the post.<\/p>\n

This is the first official partnership under the Defense Industrial Strategy\u2019s Strategic Partnership Framework<\/a> \u2014 a newly established initiative that \u201csets a long term vision for strengthening the defence industrial base,\u201d the government\u2019s website reads.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cStrategic partnerships with Canadian industry are fundamental to ensuring the Canadian Armed Forces have the capabilities they need to defend Canada today and into the future,\u201d David McGuinty, Canada\u2019s minister of defense, said in the announcement today. \u201cBy working with trusted Canadian partners, we are strengthening our defence industrial base, supporting highly skilled jobs, and advancing innovation that enhances Canada\u2019s security and sovereignty.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the government\u2019s announcement, there are currently an undisclosed number of ACSVs deployed with the Canadian-led NATO Multinational Brigade in Latvia. Additionally, Canada has donated 89 ACSVs to Ukraine, \u201cwith an additional 35 committed<\/a> at the 2026 NATO Summit, as part of more than $8.5 billion in Canadian military assistance to Ukraine,\u201d the release read.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s partnership agreement comes as Canada has attempted to strengthen its military over the last several months, and has \u201cfor the first time since the fall of the Berlin Wall,\u201d met NATO\u2019s 2 percent defense spending criterion, per the announcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new strategic partnership with\u00a0GDLS-Canada\u00a0creates a long-term framework for Canada\u2019s Armoured Combat Vehicle-Wheeled program, supporting the delivery, sustainment, modernisation, and future evolution of the fleet,\u201d today\u2019s announcement read. \u201cBy creating a more collaborative approach between government and industry, it will streamline procurement, reduce risk, accelerate delivery, and ensure Canada can respond more quickly to evolving operational requirements.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 Canada will invest nearly 2 billion Canadian dollars, or 1.4 billion USD, to build 190 new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4558,17,43792,111,691],"class_list":["post-132132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-army","tag-canada","tag-general-dynamics-land-systems","tag-mark-carney","tag-nato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}