mines

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.

Conventional Mine Warfare

14 Oct 2020

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.