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Originally posted by RACooper
The Bomarc missle was nuclear tipped - it was actually the program that killed the Avro Arrow (big issue up here)... the last warhead was removed in 1997 and taken back to the US for disposal - mind you it was 50s technology so it's not to useful... it was designed to intercept bombers by blowing up close-enough to them with a nuke.
Canadian defense has switched back and forth between adovcating a ground based defense and an air based defense - the current arguement is for developing air based interception missle technology as cheaper and easier to deploy across Canada.
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that makes since...how would you feel about a Union of our two Soveriegn Nations? [i learned a new word on greek chat]