There are “serious questions” surrounding Canada’s capacity to monitor potential threats of Russian hypersonic missiles in the Canadian Arctic, says the Senate National Security Committee.
Sen. Tony Dean, the committee’s chair, spoke to reporters during a press conference in Ottawa on June 28 about a report the committee tabled that day, titled “Arctic Security Under Threat: Urgent needs in a changing geopolitical and environmental landscape.”
Dean told reporters that Russia has reopened a number of Cold War-era Arctic military bases over the past 10 years, and more than 10 are “operational.”
Dean said Russia stations nuclear-powered submarines at those bases and has “an arsenal of hypersonic missiles, which combine the maneuverability of cruise missiles with the range and speed of intercontinental ballistic missiles.”…