Safran is integrating the PASEO Joint Fires advanced day and night panoramic sight system onto Hanwha’s Redback Infantry Fighting Vehicle (IFV). The company announced this development at Australia’s recent Land Forces 2024 event. The PASEO system is designed to provide superior targeting, surveillance, and fire control, enabling the Redback to operate in various combat environments.

The Redback IFV will soon enter service with the Australian Defence Forces (ADF) under the Land 400 Phase 3 project. PASEO integrates high-performance day and night all-weather optronics sensors, offering 360° coverage with a high-rate sectorial scanning capability. 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 (GNSS-Denied environment). These capabilities allow the Redback crew to engage targets with greater accuracy while providing enhanced situational awareness for the crew.

Safran has established operations through its local subsidiary, Safran Electronics & Defense Australasia, which successfully delivered several programs, including the supply of portable optronic solutions under the LAND 17 and LAND 300 projects and the integration of day and night sight MINEO into Australia’s Huntsman family of vehicles also delivered by Hanwha under the LAND 8116 Phase 1 project.