Deputy Prime Minister, the Hon Richard Marles has visited the CEA radars production facility at Fyshwick, Canberra, to announce the award of a $272 million contract that will see the Company, the national champion in the field of radars, design and deliver “up to” 14 multi-mission phased array radars (cs) for the Australian Army as part of Project Land 8113 Phase 2.
These sensors will be used for long range battlefield surveillance for finding and acquiring targets for the planned second Long Range Fires regiment that the Australian Army will stand up in the near future (project 8113 Phase 2). Accordingly, CEA Technologies will deliver the MMPAR radars to the 10th Fires Brigade at the Edinburgh Defence precinct in South Australia from 2027, as announced by the Minister for Defence Industry and Capability Delivery, Pat Conroy.
10th Fires Brigade is the “long arm” of the Australian Army and under Land 8113 Phase 1 has acquired a Regiment armed with 42 M142 HIMARS launchers, for which GMLRS Extended Range and Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM Inc 1) will be purchased and, in the case of the GMLRS rockets, also produced in-country.
The second Regiment’s equipment has yet to be selected: more HIMARS are a possibility but a greater focus on anti-shipping is being seriously considered and the expectation is that the new unit will actually be armed with Kongsberg Naval Strike Missiles, presumably installed on BUSHMASTER vehicle base (“STRIKEMASTER”).
The new MMPAR radars will be the latest addition to CEA Technologies' portfolio: their most famous product is the CEAFAR naval radar installed on the ANZAC frigates and, in its second and much more ambitious incarnation, on the Type 26 HUNTER-class vessels now in build. CEA has also delivered radars for the Australian Air Force Force's Joint Air Battle Management System as well as the systems for Project Air 5349 Phase 6 - Advanced Growler (key ground-based sensors and advanced electronic warfare testing and training capabilities in support of the EA-18 GROWLERs).
For the Australian Army, CEA delivers the CEA Tactical (CEATAC) and CEA Operational (CEAOPS) AESA radars for the Australian Army’s NASAMS air defence batteries, where the first system is a compact, highly mobile sensor installed on HAWKEI 4x4s while the other is a much larger system carried on MAN HX-77 trucks or large trailers.
The new contract will help sustain the 720 jobs at Fyshwick.
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