OTTAWA—Hailing the start of an annual war machine expo in the nation’s capital, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed the federal government intends to buy new surveillance planes to monitor threats in Canada’s vast Arctic and beyond from the Swedish company Saab.
The firm’s GlobalEye plane will serve as the “advanced early warning and control aircraft” for the Royal Canadian Air Force, and will use a Canadian-made airplane body from Quebec’s Bombardier, with 20 per cent content from the United States, Carney announced Wednesday.
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