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Friday, June 10, 2011

Canada to pull out of key NATO air defence program

E-3A AWACS (NATO)The government of Canada intends to cut its participation in a NATO air surveillance program, CBC News has learned.

The cuts have not yet been publicly announced, but sources tell CBC that Defence Minister Peter MacKay raised the issue with some allies at a NATO conference in Brussels, this week.

The NATO Airborne Warning And Control System (AWACS) is a series of military airborne surveillance and mission control planes that provides the alliance the ability to monitor air space, and to control fighter aircraft patrolling the skies.

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