Posts Tagged ‘mine-hunting’
World-leading advanced autonomous mine hunting capabilities for the Royal Navy have moved a step closer after a prototype uncrewed boat was successfully deployed and trialled for the first time. The Apollo Maritime Mine Counter Measure (MMCM) is a small boat-sized autonomous vessel which can be deployed from a larger ship to ...
The Royal Navy has successfully used its smallest warships as a launchpad for autonomous mine hunting operations for the first time. Seven P2000 patrol vessels of the Coastal Forces Squadron deployed on NATO’s annual Baltic exercise – known as Baltops 24 – during which 50 ships, dozens of aircraft and 9,000 ...
A specialist ship to support Royal Navy operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth. A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has ...
Northrop Grumman will be participating in the Royal Navy’s upcoming Unmanned Warrior exercise where it will demonstrate its unmanned mine-hunting capability. The unmanned mine hunting element of Unmanned Warrior will feature Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24B towed mine-hunting sensor operated from an Atlas Elektronik UK ARCIMS Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV). The AQS-24B, which ...
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