Get a taste of the interview below:

Defence IQ: How do you see Airborne Early Warning capabilities fit into the 5th generation and multi-domain operations to meet new threats?

Brian ‘Bear’ Lihani: Our ability to deter threats is dependent on our ability to detect and defeat them. As our adversaries are developing new technology that challenges our deterrence posture, we must ensure we match and outpace them to ensure that any consideration of attack to North America is too great a risk for our adversaries.

Airborne Early Warning systems are an integral component of our ability to detect threats, and they too will need to be upgraded and modified to be able to detect advanced threats. These systems will play a significant part in NORAD’s integrated surveillance network as adversaries develop weapons that could be launched from much farther than current ground based radar systems can detect.

With the proliferation of stealth technology, an effective airborne early warning system will require…