Drones made in Canada may very well be headed for the battlefield in Ukraine, because of a brand new corporate partnership between Canadian and Ukrainian drone makers.
The defence ministers of Canada and Ukraine signed an agreement to support the co-production of drones on the margins of the CANSEC defence trade show within the nation’s capital this week.
National Defence says the drones can be made by the Ukrainian company Airlogix and Canadian drone maker Sentinel R&D, which is predicated out of Hamilton, Ont.
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Each corporations will make drone systems in Canada sure for Ukraine’s military under the three way partnership.
Canada and Ukraine signed a letter of intent last fall to co-produce defence technology in each countries.
Drone technology has undergone rapid evolution throughout the Ukraine-Russian war and accounts for a lot of the casualties in that conflict.
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