MMCM

Thales confirms interoperability of its mine counter measure solutions with NATO navies and industry partners

23 Jan 2023

During the NATO Dynamic Messenger 2022 exercise, held last September in Portugal, Thales confirmed the interoperability of its MiMap and M-Cube command and control (C2) mine countermeasure system with other industry components and NATO standards.

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.

Thales to deliver the world’s first fully integrated unmanned mine countermeasures system for the Royal Navy and French “Marine Nationale”.

26 Nov 2020

Following the first phase of the program in which two demonstrators have successfully proven their operational performances at sea, France and the United Kingdom marked the tenth anniversary of the Lancaster House treaties by signing a joint contract for Thales to start the production phase of MMCM to deliver eight unmanned mine hunting systems (four for France and four for the United Kingdom).

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.

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.