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Medicine Hat, Alberta
Train and test against realistic air, land, and naval threats without expending operational systems. QinetiQ Target Systems Canada designs and produces targets, control systems, scoring, and launch equipment in Medicine Hat.
Last reviewed Sep 15, 2026
Decision snapshot
QinetiQ Target Systems Canada has a documented Medicine Hat role in export target-support services. The Vindicator II framework clarifies the Canadian operating contribution and Canadian Commercial Corporation contracting route. A customer should distinguish the multi-year service value from annual revenue and confirm task scope, personnel availability and order-specific performance obligations.
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Banshee Aerial Target Systems may help teams working on Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations by contributing to autonomous and uncrewed systems, land operations, and targeting and precision effects.
Organization context
QinetiQ's Medicine Hat operation delivers target-system services as well as hardware. Its sixth Vindicator II support framework, announced in January 2025, provides U.S. government services through Canadian Commercial Corporation with PSPC participation. The five-year USD 13.3 million agreement runs to late 2029 with an extension provision. Canadian field personnel support the U.S. Navy; contract value is not annual revenue.
QinetiQ identifies its Medicine Hat facility as the delivery base for successive Vindicator II support frameworks. The announced U.S. Navy arrangement deploys personnel from Canada through a Canadian Commercial Corporation prime-contract route; this establishes Canadian service delivery without assigning all QinetiQ target manufacture to Canada.
Recent activity
Dated Mar 10, 2026
QinetiQ Target Systems Canada deployed and remotely controlled ten Hammerhead USV targets during Exercise Cobra Gold in March 2026. Its Canadian naval air-and-sea target standing offer was amended in January 2026 and runs through March 2027.
Source: Hammerhead USVs put allies to the test (opens in a new tab)Reviewed assessment
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Contributing capability
Banshee Aerial Target Systems
Banshee Aerial Target Systems may help teams working on Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations by contributing to autonomous and uncrewed systems, land operations, and targeting and precision effects.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Open Defence needContributing capability
Banshee Aerial Target Systems
Reviewed connections indicate possible relevance based on public evidence. They do not indicate procurement direction, eligibility, endorsement or customer interest.
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Uncrewed aerial threat-representation target family
What it enables
Provide reusable and configurable uncrewed aerial targets for live-fire training, weapons acceptance, air-defence test and evaluation, and realistic radar and infrared threat representation from land or sea.
Public record
Dated participation, delivery roles, partnerships, and disclosed funding provide the operating context behind the profile.
target-system supplier
Sponsor or operator: Public Services and Procurement Canada
Organization role. Canadian standing offer for naval air-and-sea targets supplied by QinetiQ Target Systems Canada, valued at C$47,967,583 after amendments and running from May 2022 through March 2027.
Program. Canadian standing offer for naval air-and-sea targets supplied by QinetiQ Target Systems Canada, valued at C$47,967,583 after amendments and running from May 2022 through March 2027.
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QinetiQ Target Systems Canada's public evidence establishes its current role and offering, but it does not answer every access, configuration, eligibility, maturity or buyer question needed for a first business-development conversation.
Geography
The map is centred on Medicine Hat. It does not imply a street address or exact facility location.
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Last reviewed
Sep 15, 2026
QinetiQ
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Banshee Aerial Target Systems may help teams working on Low-cost drone laser ranging for indirect fire by contributing to detection and situational awareness, autonomous and uncrewed systems, and aerospace operations.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Contributing capability
Banshee Aerial Target Systems
Banshee Aerial Target Systems may help teams working on Sovereign defence capability areas by contributing to detection and situational awareness, autonomous and uncrewed systems, and cyber and digital operations.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Open Defence needContributing capability
Banshee Aerial Target Systems
Banshee Aerial Target Systems may help teams working on Defending against air and missile attacks by contributing to detection and situational awareness, aerospace operations, and targeting and precision effects.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Open Defence needContributing capability
Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems
Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems may help teams working on Sovereign defence capability areas by contributing to detection and situational awareness, autonomous and uncrewed systems, and aerospace operations.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Open Defence needContributing capability
Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems
Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems may help teams working on Defending against air and missile attacks by contributing to detection and situational awareness, aerospace operations, and targeting and precision effects.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Open Defence needContributing capability
Threat-representation target systems
QinetiQ Target Systems Canada gives forces realistic air, land, and naval threats to detect, track, engage, and learn from during test and training. That can improve readiness before large formations face the same threat patterns in operations.
Evidence strength: ModerateCapability last reviewed Jul 19, 2026
Open Defence needEvidence strength: HighLast reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Operating context
Decision-useful features
Documented applications. Ground-based air-defence acceptance and training · Air-to-air and surface-to-air weapon-system testing · Live-fire mission rehearsal · Radar, infrared and sea-skimming threat representation
Uncrewed surface and naval threat-representation systems
What it enables
Deploy remotely controlled uncrewed surface and tow targets that reproduce fast-attack craft, fast inshore attack craft, piracy, explosive-USV and swarm threats for naval training and weapon-system evaluation.
Evidence strength: HighLast reviewed Jul 24, 2026
Operating context
Decision-useful features
Documented applications. Naval gunnery and close-in weapon-system training · Surface-to-surface and air-to-surface weapon evaluation · Fast inshore attack craft and piracy threat rehearsal · Explosive-USV and swarm-defence training
Threat-representation and training system
What it enables
Represent evolving aerial, land, and naval threats with Canadian-produced targets, command-and-control, scoring, launchers, and remotely operated mission vehicles.
Evidence strength: HighLast reviewed Jul 19, 2026
Operating context
Decision-useful features
Documented applications. Live-force training · Test and evaluation · Mission rehearsal and threat representation
Vindicator II prime contracting route
Canadian Commercial Corporation
QinetiQ identifies Canadian Commercial Corporation as prime contractor for its Canadian Vindicator II U.S. government support framework, with PSPC participation. The January 2025 announcement describes a five-year USD 13.3 million service agreement to late 2029.
Source type. official company product
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The official public contact pathway for QinetiQ Target Systems Canada is https://www.qinetiq.com/en-ca.
QinetiQ · Jan 8, 2025
Source type. official company news
Supports. Profile · executive relevance summary · Profile · operating context · Profile · canadian footprint · Vindicator II prime contracting route relationship
QinetiQ reported a sixth framework agreement for its Medicine Hat Vindicator II support service, valued at USD 13.3 million over five years to late 2029 with a six-month extension provision. It describes Canadian personnel supporting U.S. Navy target services through prime contractor Canadian Commercial Corporation, with PSPC participation. This is an announced service-contract value, not annual revenue.
CanadaBuys · May 26, 2022
Source type. award or contract
Supports. Profile · defence posture · Profile · operating context · Profile · canadian footprint · Profile · profile data · Canadian Naval Air and Sea Target Standing Offer · organization participation · Canadian Naval Air and Sea Target Standing Offer · canonical program
QinetiQ Target Systems Canada is a direct defence test-and-training supplier with a current CanadaBuys naval-target contract and a Canadian portfolio of remotely operated aerial and surface threat-representation systems.
QinetiQ · Mar 10, 2026
Source type. official company news
Supports. Profile · current activity · Profile · current activity as of · Profile · operating context · Profile · profile data · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems · add child · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks
QinetiQ's March 2026 report identifies the Canadian Target Systems team and documents deployment and remote control of ten Hammerhead targets in three multinational exercise scenarios.
QinetiQ Canada
Source type. company website
Supports. Profile · description · Threat-representation target systems · summary · Threat-representation target systems → Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations
QinetiQ describes its Medicine Hat operation and Canadian production of naval, aerial, and land target systems, remotely operated surface vessels, command-and-control systems, scoring systems, and launchers.
CanadaBuys · Oct 5, 2023
Source type. procurement notice
Supports. Banshee Aerial Target Systems · add child · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Low-cost drone laser ranging for indirect fire · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks
CanadaBuys identifies QTS as a Canadian aerial-target equipment and services provider and documents Banshee use across a broad set of ground-based and naval air-defence systems.
QinetiQ
Source type. official company product
Supports. Banshee Aerial Target Systems · add child · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Low-cost drone laser ranging for indirect fire · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks
The Banshee Jet 80 official page documents twin turbine propulsion, land and sea launch, use with surface-to-air and air-to-air weapon systems, modular target enhancement and realistic infrared signatures.
QinetiQ
Source type. official company product
Supports. Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems · add child · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks
QinetiQ's official surface-target portfolio describes Hammerhead, Barracuda, Sprite II and tow targets for naval live-fire readiness, fast-attack-craft and piracy scenarios, including simultaneous control of up to 40 targets.
QinetiQ
Source type. official company product
Supports. Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems · add child · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks
The Hammerhead MkII product page supports line-of-sight and over-the-horizon control, 35-knot operation in Sea State 3, payload customization and swarm threat representation.
NATO · Jul 1, 2026
Source type. government policy
Supports. Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations · Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Defending against air and missile attacks · Threat-representation target systems → Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations
Enhancing the combat effectiveness of large land formations
National Defence · May 21, 2026
Source type. innovation program
Supports. Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Low-cost drone laser ranging for indirect fire
The article says proposed solutions are intended to improve battlefield awareness, decision making, soldier survivability, sensor-to-shooter integration, and resilience in harsh environmental conditions.
Department of National Defence · Mar 1, 2026
Source type. official policy
Supports. Banshee Aerial Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas · Hammerhead and Barracuda Naval Target Systems → Sovereign defence capability areas
Reviewer synthesis of the public end state: Canada can build, sustain or control priority aerospace, ammunition, digital, in-service support, sensor, space, specialized manufacturing, training and uncrewed capabilities through domestic strength, trusted partnerships and sovereign access.
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