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Canada was always meant to follow the United States in acquiring world-leading Australian radar technology but "things moved quickly" after Donald Trump won the US presidency. Subscribe: http://ab.co/1svxLVE Read more here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292 Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed the $6.5 billion JORN purchase overnight, after a conversation with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.    ABC News provides around the clock coverage of news events as they break in Australia and abroad. It's news when you want it, from Australia's most trusted news organisation.  For more from ABC News, click here: https://ab.co/2kxYCZY Watch more ABC News content ad-free on ABC iview: https://ab.co/2OB7Mk1  Go deeper on our ABC News In-depth channel: https://ab.co/2lNeBn2 Like ABC News on Facebook: http://facebook.com/abcnews.au Follow ABC News on Instagram: http://instagram.com/abcnews_au Follow ABC News on X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/abcnews  Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.  #ABCNews #ABCNewsAustralia

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00:00We're talking about technology developed about four decades ago in Australia, known as the

00:05Jindalee Over-the-Horizon Radar System, or JAWN for short. Australia uses it to monitor the

00:13northern approaches to this country and it is considered world-leading. It can stretch out

00:18for thousands of kilometres and uses unique technology to detect incoming threats. Well,

00:25overnight the Canadian new Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke to his Australian counterpart

00:31Anthony Albanese and then travelled to a remote Arctic region of Canada to make this announcement

00:38of a $6 billion purchase for JAWN to be used in Canada to detect threats over the Arctic.

00:46Let's hear now from the Canadian leader. Today, I'm announcing that our government

00:51will be working with our long-standing defence and security partner, Australia,

00:56to build a new long-range over-the-horizon military radar system. This is an investment

01:04of more than $6 billion in the most advanced and efficient radar system.

01:10The over-the-horizon radar system will enable Canada to detect and respond to both air and

01:16maritime threats over our Arctic faster and from further away. It will most fundamentally

01:25keep all Canadians safe. That was Mark Carney, the new Canadian

01:30Prime Minister. Well, this news broke overnight and the government was not the first here in

01:37Australia to announce it. It waited, obviously, for Canada to do so. But the Defence Minister

01:43Richard Miles, in a subsequent interview with the ABC, speculated that this could end up being

01:49Australia's largest ever military export deal. We heard the number of $6 billion Canadian dollars

01:56mentioned there. And, of course, Australia was also looking to sell this world-leading technology

02:04to the United States first. But that didn't occur. We understand that under the Trump

02:09administration, all Pentagon spending is being closely examined. But let's hear now from Richard

02:15Miles speaking to the ABC. What's in prospect here, there's a little water to go under the

02:20bridge, but what's in prospect here is potentially the biggest defence industry export that Australia

02:25has ever been a part of. And that would obviously be very good for Australian industry. But we've

02:30been working very closely with Canada. I visited my counterpart in Canada well before the inauguration

02:38of President Trump last year and indeed spoke with him earlier this week. And we'll continue

02:43to partner with a long-term partner of this country. Defence Minister Richard Miles speaking

02:50there. And obviously, this all comes in the context, Ros, of increasingly frosty relations

02:55between the United States and its northern neighbour, Canada. We know the Trump administration

03:00has been putting a lot of pressure on Canada to lift its defence spending. Also, same pressure

03:06being applied to Australia. But part of this Canadian announcement will go to a joint facility

03:12run by the United States and Canada, known as NORAD. Remains to be seen whether the United

03:18States will follow, but Australia is also potentially looking at another country,

03:22the United Kingdom, buying this world-leading technology.

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