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The Canadian Armed Forces was supposed to start receiving the first of its new standard military pattern trucks by the end of 2017.

The Standard Military Pattern or SMP trucks are coming from Mack Defense, LLC.

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The delivery of the trucks was originally supposed to take place in the summer of 2017 but was pushed back to late 2017.

But now Defence Watch has been told that the truck delivery has been delayed once again. Issues with certain aspects on the trucks emerged and had to be dealt with.

“The qualification testing has led to necessary changes in the vehicle that will be incorporated prior to delivering the equipment to the Canadian Armed Forces,” said Department of National Defence spokesman Andrew McKelvey.

“Testing has for instance led to improvements of the truck’s central tire inflation system as well as its cargo variant tarp superstructure. The improvements have led to some delays in the overall delivery schedule, however this will not affect the current work of the Canadian Armed Forces, nor will it result in increased costs to Canada.”