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Canadian designation Canadian Vehicle Crew Modular Helmet. [4] Modular helmet issued to Canadian Army vehicle crews. [11] Fragmentation Protective Vest [12] Canada: Body armour: 31,000 [13] Commercial name Model 4100. [14] Manufactured by Pacific Safety Systems. [15] Sniper Body Armour System Canada: Body armour: 319 Used exclusively by ...
A flak jacket is designed to provide protection from case fragments ("frag") from high explosive weaponry, such as anti-aircraft artillery ("flak" is a German contraction for Fliegerabwehrkanone, "aircraft-defense gun"), grenade fragments, very small pellets used in shotguns such as the "Birdshot", and other lower-velocity projectiles.
The beret was often worn, but could be replaced by a soft OD field hat or the American M1 helmet as the tactical situation dictated (while the Canadian combat uniform was universally olive green, American-style cloth helmet covers where two types of camouflage pattern were issued; a reversible "Mitchill" pattern consisting of a spring pattern ...
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The CG634 is made of aramid and has a minimum v 50 of 634 m/s (compared to the PASGT's 610 m/s). It mates a modified French design, based on the PASGT, but adapted for compatibility with Canadian equipment (head-set, respirator, vision devices and armoured vest).
Personnel Armor System for Ground Troops (PASGT, pronounced / ˈ p æ z ɡ ə t / PAZ-gət) is a combat helmet and ballistic vest that was used by the United States military from the early 1980s until the early or mid-2000s, when the helmet and vest were succeeded by the Lightweight Helmet (LWH), Modular Integrated Communications Helmet (MICH), and Interceptor body armor (IBA) respectively.
The National Defence Act states that "the Canadian Forces are the armed forces of Her Majesty raised by Canada, consisting of one service called the Canadian Armed Forces" [62] and the Constitution Act, 1867, vests command-in-chief of the Forces in the country's sovereign, [13] who, since 1904, has authorized his or her viceroy, the governor ...
The most-watched television broadcast in Canadian history was the gold medal game of the men's hockey tournament at the 2010 Winter Olympics, played between the United States and Canada in Vancouver, with an average minute audience of 16.6 million Canadians watching the game, roughly one-half of Canada's population in 2010. [1]