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Telemus Inc.
Among the electronic warfare gadgets built by Ottawa’s Telemus, is something called the “Coho simulator.”
This product, pictured in the top right, does not simulate Pacific Salmon. Rather, Telemus has bragged that this “Radar Target and Electronic Countermeasures simulation” equipment has been used in “applications in the development of seekers for ballistic missile defence.” Now, seekers are the homing or targeting systems used in warheads. So in order to assist weapons designers who are developing targeting devices used in the nosecones of “missile defence” weapons, the Coho simulator mimics the kind of radar signals emitted by the missiles to be targeted.
Telemus owes its very existence to the Canadian government military agency, DRDC, which funded its initial contracts in the mid-1980s. DRDC then generously handed over to Telemus various profitable patents and licensing agreements for war technology that had been publicly-funded.
Telemus has now been gobbled up by Northrop Grumman, the world’s fourth-largest “missile defense” contractor.
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