Canada will buy up to 16 spy planes from Boeing to replace an aging fleet and counter adversaries’ increasingly stealthy and lethal capabilities near its coasts and overseas, officials said Wednesday. The P-8A Poseidon aircraft, which are used by the powerful Five Eyes intelligence alliance, to which Canada belongs with Australia, the United States, Britain and New Zealand, will cost Can$10.4 billion (US$7.7 billion).

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