HDA chooses Safran to integrate the PASEO Joint Fires on Redback IFV 

Melbourne-based Hanwha Defence Australia (HDA) has chosen Safran Electronics and Defense Australasia in Sydney to supply the PASEO Joint Fires advanced day and night panoramic sight for integration on the HDA Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV) under Project LAND 400 Phase 3. 

The PASEO Joint Fires solution provides the long-range Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition, & Reconnaissance (ISTAR) sensor for the Redback IFV supplied by Hanwha to the Australian Army under LAND 400 Phase 3. The contract calls for the production and delivery of PASEO Joint Fires sensors and associated ancillaries. 

This contract leverages the world leading position of the PASEO family which has sold more than 2,500 units for IFVs, Main Battle Tank and Joint Fires worldwide. It integrates day and night all weather optronics sensors and offers 360° coverage with a high-rate sectorial scanning capability, says Safran. The PASEO Joint Fires includes Safran’s Geonyx inertial navigation system, which provides precise and reliable positions, even if satellite navigation signals are unavailable or inaccessible, in a GNSS-denied environment for example. 

The project will continue Safran’s history of providing optronics sensors for the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Sydney-based Safran Electronics and Defense Australasia has already successfully delivered portable optronic solutions under Projects LAND 17, aimed at enhancing Australian’s artillery capabilities, and LAND 300 which aims to equip Australian soldiers with next-generation surveillance and target acquisition ancillaries. The company also supplies its onboard day and night sight MINEO for HDA’s Huntsman family of 155mm self-propelled artillery and resupply vehicles under Project LAND 8116 Phase 1. 

Safran Electronics & Defense Australasia will leverage its extensive sovereign optronic engineering and sustainment capability, as well as the capabilities of its French parent company, to allow Hanwha Defence Australia and the ADF to achieve their capability outcomes. 

“It will be critically important that this superior capability is delivered to Australian Defence as we have done for Army over the last five years,” said Anthony Bianco, Head of Sales and Marketing at Safran Electronics and Defense Australasia.