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Monday, January 26, 2009

Taking AESA Radar Abroad

As the competition grows among U.S. firms like Raytheon and Northrop Grumman to sell active electronically scanned array (AESA) radars for fighter jets, Europe's Selex Galileo is quietly carving out a market for slimmed-down versions of AESA radar for maritime patrol aircraft, helicopters and UAVs.

Building on the sale of its AESA Seaspray radar to the U.S. Coast Guard for use on C-130s, the unit of Italy's Finmeccanica group has sold the radar to the United Kingdom for use on its Future Lynx helicopters, and to Italy for its new ATR 72 maritime patrol aircraft.

Selex Galileo also is close to concluding its second contract for the Seaspray in South America. A first deal was struck last year with Ecuador to mount the radar on a Navy CN 235 patrol aircraft and a Beechcraft 300, while the firm expects to wrap a contract in coming weeks with a second, as-yet-unnamed Latin American country to equip maritime patrol aircraft and helicopters with the Seaspray 7000 variant.

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