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The Canadian Department of National Defense brokered a major joint-production deal in May between Bombardier and Sweden’s Saab to build the next generation of airborne early warning and control for the Royal Canadian Air Force. The GlobalEye will integrate Saab’s advanced radar and sensor suite with a domestically built Bombardier Global 6500 jet. The bizjet turned AEW&C platform combines Saab’s Erieye Extended Range radar with an advanced suite of sensors and a multi-domain command and control, or C2. The selection of the Swedish system came despite intense pressure from Washington to buy the prohibitively more expensive Boeing E-7 Wedgetail, which…
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