Canada is moving quickly to secure a long-range strike system that has proved effective in the war in Ukraine, putting much of the country’s evolving defence-procurement strategy to the test.
The deep-precision strike (DPS) system that Canada is looking to buy from another country initially, and later develop in-house, is somewhere between a long-range one-way attack drone and a cruise missile.
It’s a mode of attack that several North Atlantic Treaty Organization members, including Canada, have identified an urgent need for based upon observations from the war in Ukraine. Germany and Norway are among the countries with companies leading in this field.
Less than successful test launch of a Republic-Ford JB-2 clone of the German WWII V-1 flying bomb at Point Mugu on the Californian coast circa early 1947 pic.twitter.com/Hsw1jo8eMZ
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