The North Warning System is incapable of effectively responding to modern missile technology, MPs were warned
The aging North Warning System that is supposed to detect incoming threats to North America is incapable of effectively responding to modern missile technology, MPs were warned Monday.
Earlier this month, Defence Minister Anita Anand said the Canadian government will soon unveil a significant spending plan to help modernize continental defences under NORAD – a revamp the United States has been seeking for years to address more complex missile threats to North America. The 2022 federal budget is expected to be released in the weeks ahead.
Hypersonic missiles can fly five times the speed of sound and change course midflight. Russia said on the weekend it used hypersonic missiles in Ukraine to destroy an ammunition depot. Rob Huebert, a political scientist at the University of Calgary, told MPs that successive Canadian governments have been hamstrung in their ability to conduct an independent assessment of threats to this country and the necessary military equipment because of the assumption the “Americans will always be there to protect” the continent, regardless of defence spending in Canada.
Prof. Fergusson told MPs the most important and pressing defence spending investment Canada could make today is sensor systems to detect incoming threats: not just replacements for the ground-based North Warning System but also other air-based options, such as airborne radar systems, high-altitude balloons and space-based systems.
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