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Bison Transport was established by on 28 May 1969 by Duncan M. Jessiman, when he deployed 18 trucks manned by 32 employees in Winnipeg. The following year, Bison made its first acquisition, the local carrier RC Owen Transport. It acquired the local carrier Echo Transport in 1979 before expanding its business into the United States in 1981. [5]
The LAV II Bison and Coyote are armoured cars, or armoured personnel carriers built by General Dynamics Land Systems Canada for the Canadian Armed Forces. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Bison vehicles have been used to a lesser extent by the Australian Army and the US National Guard .
The Myasishchev M-4 Molot (Russian: Молот (Hammer), USAF/DoD reporting name "Type 37", [2] [3] ASCC reporting name Bison [4]) was a four-engined strategic bomber designed by Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev and manufactured by the Soviet Union in the 1950s to provide a Long Range Aviation bomber capable of attacking targets in North America.
The AVGP had propellers and trim vanes for amphibious use, like the eight-wheeled Bison, which was the vehicle family's immediate successor. The Cougar was used for training in Canada as a reconnaissance vehicle. [10] During the 1980s and 1990s, it was used by armoured units as a fire support vehicle, for those units not equipped with the ...
Stryker. Stryker 4,466 . M1126 infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) M1126 Stryker (IAV) has two variants, he infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) and the mobile gun system (MGS).; The (ICV) variant has eight additional configurations: mortar carrier (MC), reconnaissance vehicle (RV), commanders vehicle (CV), fire support vehicle (FSV), medical evacuation vehicle (MEV), engineer squad vehicle (ESV), anti ...
The Bison is an armoured vehicle based on the 8x8 LAV-25 platform and was originally designed as an armoured personnel carrier. Entering service in 1990, it was used mainly as an armoured utility vehicle having a number of different sub-variants throughout its years of service.
The name "Zubr" is Russian for the European bison. [5] This class of military hovercraft is, as of 2023 the world's largest hovercraft, [ 6 ] with a standard full load displacement of 555 tons. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] The hovercraft was designed to sealift amphibious assault units (such as marines and tanks ) from equipped/non-equipped vessels to non ...
In early 2014 the Conservative government under Stephen Harper prepared the sale of several hundred LAV 6 vehicles to Saudi Arabia for an estimated CAD $10 billion. This was one of the largest manufacturing export deals in modern Canadian history, though it was heavily criticized due to Saudi Arabia's record on human rights abuses and involving in the Yemeni Civil War. [21]