Autonomous surface vehicles
Autonomous surface vehicles
house ASV is to
deliver the unmanned surface
vehicle (USV) component
of a next-generation mine
countermeasures (MCM)
‘system of systems’ being
developed by a Thales/BAE
Systems consortium under
the French/UK Maritime Mine
Countermeasures (MMCM)
demonstrator programme.
The MMCM
prototyping effort is planned
to lead to the world’s first
operational unmanned MCM
system. Thales was awarded
an initial £17 million contract by
OCCAR to
execute MMCM Stage 1 o