Additional Uncrewed Minehunting System for UK Royal Navy

ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK’s Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV)-based system will be fitted with advanced sense and avoid autonomy, a launch and recovery system, and towed sidescan sonar for mine sweeping and minehunting tasks By DA Staff / 03 Feb 2022

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ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UKĀ  has been contracted by the Defence Equipment and SupportĀ (DE&S) Mine Hunting Capability (MHC) Team to deliver a further ARCIMS uncrewed minehunting system for the U.K. Royal Navy.

The Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV)-based system named RNMB HYDRA complements the 4 existing ARCIMS systems (RNMBs HUSSAR, HALCYON, HARRIER and HAZARD) being supplied to the Royal Navy for mine sweeping and minehunting tasks.

ā€œI am delighted in the Royal Navy’s decision to make further investments into the capability offered by ARCIMS, which have been delivered and supported under the U.K. Sweep and Wilton projects,ā€ said Wes Galliver, Head of Surface Ship Systems Division. ā€œThe flexibility of the platform to deliver across the mine countermeasures domain once again allows us to showcase the deployment of both our own payloads and those of third parties.ā€

RNMB HYDRA will be fitted with advanced Sense and Avoid Autonomy, a Launch and Recovery System (LARS) and towed sidescan sonar. Command and Control will be from a Portable Command Center (PCC) and combines UXV Autonomy software with Seebyte’s planning and analysis software.

The platform will be delivered to the Royal Navy by late 2022 and deployed for Operational Evaluation in early 2023.

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