Autonomous Mine Countermeasure system

Maritime Mine Countermeasures Programme (MMCM): The success of at-sea demonstrations turns the spotlight to the future

10 May 2021

Thales brings all this learning together in PathMaster, a complete approach designed to help customers cut through the complexity of unmanned mine warfare and explore the solutions that meet their future MCM needs and budgets.

The UK’s ORCA mine countermeasures CMS programme

30 Nov 2020

How a combination of open architecture and innovation is delivering significant upgrades to the Royal Navy’s Hunt and Sandown Class minehunters.

Maintaining the edge for Italy’s Gaeta Class minehunters

23 Nov 2020

How Thales technology has recently seen the sixth in a series of eight minehunters upgraded to modern sonar, as part of a refurbishment programme spanning the last decade. Proving how Thales’s tailored and committed approach to naval services is helping maintain sonar mission readiness, as Italy’s Navy eyes its next generation of mine countermeasures capability.

PATHMASTER, Unmanned Mine Countermeasures

14 Oct 2020

Navies around the world need to perform a variety of missions from Maritime Security Operations in territorial waters to Power Projection including interventions on external theaters of operations, and from coastal environments to the deep sea.

Defeating maritime mines: an engineer’s perspective

08 Sep 2020

Few of us will ever create something of lasting international importance. Senior Systems Engineer Neil Coleman, the trials and acceptance lead for a four-year project to develop the world’s first unmanned autonomous mine countermeasures solution, is one of the few…

Safer seas with autonomous unmanned vessels for mine countermeasures

12 Mar 2020

Thales has been providing navies around the world with world leading mission capabilities for almost a century. Today, our expertise in maritime technology is transforming the science of mine countermeasures (MCM). Here’s why…

The Maritime Mine Countermeasures Programme: the French and British navies blaze the trail towards a global first with their revolutionary autonomous system

13 Sep 2019

Recognising the clear alignment of their objectives, in 2015, France and the UK fired the starting gun to embrace a new, unprecedented concept of operations: the Maritime Mine Countermeasures (MMCM) Programme. The ambition? By 2020, to be operating a sophisticated system comprising a tailored, toolbox of autonomous seaborne drones.

Rooting out the new undersea mine threats in disguise

09 Sep 2019

Mines in disguise have become cheaper and easier to plant to threaten naval operations. Thales has developed the first autonomous mine countermeasure system - based on autonomy, Artificial intelligence, Big data analytics and cybersecurity - to be adopted by the French and UK navies.