{"id":103176,"date":"2026-06-22T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=103176"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:31:53","slug":"adats-air-defense-anti-tank-system-canadas-high-tech-cold-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/06\/22\/adats-air-defense-anti-tank-system-canadas-high-tech-cold-warrior\/","title":{"rendered":"ADATS &#8211; Air Defense Anti-Tank System; Canada&#8217;s high tech cold warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tf4M1iyDwd4?si=w3VH6ziodu2Gfsq4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Polyus<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 19 Jun 2026<\/p>\n<p>While designed mainly in Switzerland, over the years its identity became distinctly Canadian. It was produced in Toronto by Oerlikon Aerospace Canada and was operated by Canadian forces from 1988 to 2011. This is the story of the Air Defense Anti-Tank System, or ADATS<\/p>\n<p>ADATS was a very interesting and highly advanced air defense system designed to fight a cold war that never materialized. It was operated for a little over 20 years, so it was by no means a flash-in-the-pan. Unfortunately, Canada has since given up its short ranged air defense capability and all of the human expertise that was built up over the years. Hopefully in the future a new system can be acquired and Canada can again expand its sovereign air defense capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>This video was made without the use of Artificial Intelligence (No AI). Long live people power!<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Introduction<br \/>\n0:29 European Background<br \/>\n2:09 Technical Details<br \/>\n4:05 Engagement Sequence<br \/>\n5:38 Comparison to other Systems<br \/>\n6:06 Canadian Adoption<br \/>\n7:48 American Testing<br \/>\n8:32 Thai Adoption<br \/>\n8:57 Advanced Variants<br \/>\n10:23 Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>Music:<br \/>\n&#8220;Denmark&#8221; &#8211; Portland Cello Project<br \/>\n&#8220;Your Suggestions&#8221; &#8211; Unicorn Heads<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polyus Published 19 Jun 2026 While designed mainly in Switzerland, over the years its identity became distinctly Canadian. It was produced in Toronto by Oerlikon Aerospace Canada and was operated by Canadian forces from 1988 to 2011. This is the story of the Air Defense Anti-Tank System, or ADATS ADATS was a very interesting and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,62,7,5,13,663],"tags":[991,448,108,709,528,657],"class_list":["post-103176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-europe","category-history","category-military","category-usa","category-weapons","tag-afvs","tag-canadianforces","tag-coldwar","tag-missiledefence","tag-switzerland","tag-thailand"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-qQ8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103177,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103176\/revisions\/103177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}