Canada took 4 months to send money after deciding to buy air defence system for Ukraine

Thomas Withington, an analyst who studies air defence systems and electronic warfare at the U.K.-based Royal United Services Institute, said the struggle by Canada, the U.S. and other nations over the last two years to acquire protection against missiles and drones has ramifications beyond the war in Ukraine. "We've lived, in many ways, through a gilded age where, by and large, the air threat to NATO writ-large has been reduced," said Withington. We've not faced the prospect of our own countries being attacked en masse with air delivered effects, so missiles, bombs, that kind of thing. That situation has now ended, and in many ways we find ourselves back in a similar situation to where we were during the Cold War, where we faced significant air threats and we faced significant missile threats."