Air World Leaders in Expendable Countermeasures
In modern warfare, air and naval operations are under constant threat from ground, sea and air-based missile systems. Personnel, assets and the missions they are conducting need constant protection by the most reliable and effective countermeasures available
Through our group companies, Chemring Australia provides the world’s most advanced expendable countermeasures and countermeasure suites for protecting air, sea and land platforms against guided missile threats.
We protect more military personnel than anyone else with our range of:
Air
Our ‘Threat Driven Solutions’ are created for the challenges of modern air missions. Our proprietary decoys have the unique properties of day and night visual covertness and in-band radiant output.

Sea
We are the world leader in ‘soft kill’ protection against anti-ship missiles. We have unrivalled expertise in naval electromagnetic countermeasures, providing both radar-reflective and IR payloads, along with complete rounds for most current NATO compatible systems.
Australian manufacture for a global market - Chemring Australia’s new state of the art facility in Lara, Victoria, is one of the world’s most advanced countermeasures manufacturing plants. The facility will incorporate remotely operated, automated production to ensure high standards of safety, product quality and flexible capacity.
When completed, the facility will have the capability to manufacture all of the Australian Defence Force’s requirements for countermeasure flares. The site has been designed to have the capability to manufacture countermeasures in support of all future air platforms.