Ukraine’s president says getting air defence systems onto the battlefield is the top priority in the new year, but the system Canada promised a year ago still hasn’t been delivered — and it’s not clear when it will be.
Ottawa announced plans to donate a $406-million surface-to-air missile defence system, known by the acronym NASAMS, on Jan. 10, 2023. Nearly a year later, one of the two companies involved in building the NASAMS system says it does not have a contract for the Canadian donation.
The plan is for Canada to pay the United States government the total cost of the system, and