NATO has made it official, announcing Tuesday that it intends to acquire up to 10 Saab-manufactured GlobalEye early warning surveillance aircraft in a plan that has important implications for Canada.
Secretary General Mark Rutte said at the outset of this year’s leader’s summit in Ankara, Turkey, that the Western military alliance will open formal negotiations with the Swedish company in order to secure the planes.
The alliance had previously signalled it was looking at the high-tech jet as a replacement for NATO’s existing fleet of aging Boeing E-3 AWACs.
