Canada's tanks

[PrairieFella]

"Some have argued that the reconnaissance role is no longer relevant with UAS etc, so we shouldn't worry about it. There may be some merit in that argument, but I don't know that we can make such a bold pronouncement."

I still think there is a place on the battlefield for the human to conduct recce. Recce is a relevant role and lets not forget UAS etc can break or be rendered incapable of performing its task.
There is nothing quite like "eyes on the objective".

The problem with armoured recce in the Canadian context is it's too damned passive as it was born in the Sinai during our peacekeeping days and matured in the "End of History" era. If a recce by force-centric, combined arms cavalry squadron similar to our Second World War Recce model became the flavour of the day, I personally would be one of the first to volunteer haha.