Canada buys Australian Arctic radar in A$2.5bn defence-export first
Australia has been refining the same unusual piece of radar for decades, a system that bounces signals off the ionosphere to see thousands of kilometres past the curve of the Earth, and for all that time it kept the technology to itself. On Sunday it sold it abroad for the first time.
Canada agreed to buy an Arctic over-the-horizon radar built on Australian technology in a deal worth around A$2.5bn, or roughly US$1.75bn, which Canberra called its largest-ever defence export.
The agreement was signed in Canberra by Australia’s deputy prime minister and defence minister, Richard Marles, and Canada’s secretary of state for defence procurement, Stephen Fuhr.
It builds on the Jindalee Operational Radar Network, the system Australia uses to watch its own northern approaches, which Canberra describes as the world’s leading large-scale, long-range over-the-horizon radar, capable of surveillance at ranges of roughly 1,000 to 3,000 kilometres. BAE Systems Australia is...
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