Manufacturer catalog

L3Harris WESCAM

L3Harris WESCAM is the Canadian electro-optical and infrared sensor business behind the WESCAM MX-Series of stabilized surveillance, reconnaissance, target-acquisition, and designating systems. Its Waterdown and Toronto, Ontario operations support MX-Series design, optics, assembly, service, and product support for airborne, land, and maritime platforms.

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WESCAM's public product line is centered on the MX-Series, a family of multi-sensor, multi-spectral EO/IR systems used for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, targeting, and maritime-domain-awareness missions. L3Harris describes the family as spanning airborne surveillance, airborne targeting, land ISR and targeting, maritime ISR, and global service support.

The Canadian operation sits inside L3Harris Technologies, but it remains a distinct manufacturer name in defense sourcing because many public documents identify WESCAM MX sensors rather than the broader parent company. L3Harris says its Ontario facilities include a 330,000-square-foot Waterdown manufacturing site and a Toronto optics facility that designs, coats, and assembles lens systems for WESCAM MX-Series EO/IR sensors.

Electro-optical and infrared sensor systemsStabilized imaging turretsAirborne ISR and targeting payloadsLand reconnaissance and targeting sightsMaritime surveillance sensorsSensor support and repair

Notable Systems

EO/IR Pod, Electro-optical/infrared airborne sensor pod, Support Equipment

EO/IR Pod

Electro-optical/infrared airborne sensor pod

The catalog's EO/IR Pod entry covers WESCAM MX-15 and MX-15D airborne sensor contexts, including official L3Harris descriptions of surveillance, reconnaissance, targeting, and designating roles.

Sources: WESCAM MX-Series, WESCAM MX-15, WESCAM MX-15D
VAMPIRE, Modular counter-UAS rocket system, Air Defense

VAMPIRE

Modular counter-UAS rocket system

L3Harris markets VAMPIRE with a WESCAM MX-10D RSTA EO/IR sensor in the system architecture, linking WESCAM stabilized imaging to the company's counter-UAS product family.

Sources: L3Harris VAMPIRE

Manufacturer History

  1. L-3 announces WESCAM acquisition

    Washington Technology reported that L-3 Communications would buy Wescam Inc., described as a Canadian provider of visual-information systems for military customers, for about $118 million.

    Sources: L-3 acquires Wescam

  2. L3Harris name follows corporate merger

    L3Harris Technologies was formed when L3 Technologies and Harris Corporation completed their merger, placing the former L3 WESCAM business under the L3Harris corporate name.

    Sources: L3Harris annual reports

  3. U.S. Army MX-Series support contract

    The Canadian Commercial Corporation says L3Harris received an eight-year, $380 million contract for WESCAM MX-Series products and services supporting U.S. Army surveillance and targeting operations.

    Sources: CCC L3Harris profile

  4. Waterdown manufacturing site publicized

    L3Harris describes its Waterdown, Ontario facility as a 330,000-square-foot site for WESCAM MX-Series research and development, engineering, assembly, service, administration, and office functions.

    Sources: L3Harris in Ontario

  5. Italy WESCAM service center opens

    L3Harris opened a WESCAM Authorized Service Center in Bologna, Italy, to support Italian and regional European end users of WESCAM MX-Series EO/IR systems.

    Sources: Italy WESCAM service center

Predecessors
Wescam Inc.L-3 WESCAM
Website links
WESCAM MX-SeriesL3Harris in OntarioWESCAM MX-15WESCAM MX-15DVAMPIRE

WESCAM appears in sources both as the legacy Canadian company name and as a current L3Harris product/manufacturing identity. This profile uses L3Harris WESCAM for the current sensor business and keeps broader L3Harris Technologies systems under the parent-company profile unless public sources identify a WESCAM MX sensor connection.

Manufacturer Sources

  • WESCAM MX-SeriesPublisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports WESCAM MX-Series product-family context across air, land, and maritime EO/IR surveillance, reconnaissance, target-acquisition, and designating missions. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • L3Harris in OntarioPublisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports the Waterdown and Toronto Ontario facility descriptions, location details, 330,000-square-foot Waterdown site, and WESCAM MX-Series delivery scale. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • WESCAM MX-15Publisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports the WESCAM MX-15 airborne surveillance and reconnaissance description. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • WESCAM MX-15DPublisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports WESCAM MX-15D context as an airborne EO/IR targeting and designating system. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • L3Harris VAMPIREPublisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports the VAMPIRE product context and its WESCAM MX-10D RSTA sensor integration. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • CCC L3Harris profilePublisher: Canadian Commercial Corporation | Note: Supports Canadian defense-industry context, WESCAM MX-Series fielded-system scale, and the 2020 U.S. Army MX-Series products-and-services contract through CCC. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • Italy WESCAM service centerPublisher: L3Harris Technologies | Note: Supports the November 2024 opening of the Bologna WESCAM Authorized Service Center and related service-support context. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • L-3 acquires WescamPublisher: Washington Technology | Note: Supports the 2002 L-3 Communications acquisition announcement and Wescam's pre-acquisition identity as a Canadian military visual-information systems company. | Accessed: 2026-07-11
  • L3Harris annual reportsPublisher: L3Harris Technologies Investor Relations | Note: Supports current L3Harris corporate reporting context and the 2019 corporate lineage used for ownership framing. | Accessed: 2026-07-11

Produced weapons

Category

Support Equipment

Transport, logistics, recovery, command, engineering, and other enabling equipment.

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EO/IR Pod, Electro-optical/infrared airborne sensor pod, Support Equipment2020 Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict, 2014 Second Libyan Civil War +1 moreEO/IR PodElectro-optical/infrared airborne sensor podBuilt in: Canada / United StatesEO/IR Pod is a support-equipment entry for airborne electro-optical and infrared sensor pods used to find, track, and designate targets from aircraft and UAVs. The page centers on source-backed examples: Canadian WESCAM sensors assessed on Turkish UAVs in Nagorno-Karabakh, Libya, and Syria; Aero's L-39 Skyfox mission fit showing an EO/IR pod; and the U.S. Coast Guard HC-130J's nose-mounted EO/IR pod. Because carrier publications often name the function rather than a specific model, the relationship notes separate identified WESCAM MX-series evidence from generic EO/IR-pod references.