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Thales Australia's Partnership Advances Autonomous Mine Countermeasure Technologies
The Thales Australia, Defence, Academia, and SME partnership delivered autonomous vehicle prototypes and advanced sensors, enhancing safety and accelerating mission efficacy in mine countermeasures.
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In an Australian first, the ‘Mine Counter Measures in a Day’ project explored autonomous vehicle navigation in the shallow water zone; an operationally complex area due to turbulent water conditions, changing turbidity and depth of water.
Deployable from sea or land, and operational in the most challenging coastal conditions, the autonomous system of systems maps the minefield and identifies Mine Like Objects (MLO) before deploying a neutralisation (simulated) package to counter the identified targets.
“The Mine Countermeasures (MCM) in a day Project was a unique, multi-partner activity with the objective of developing a solution which puts the safety of Defence personnel at its core. Thales Australia’s 40+ year pedigree in sonar technologies, coupled with the innovative thinking of Academia, SMEs and DSTG, has delivered the building blocks of an Australian first Robotic and Autonomous System littoral mine clearance solution to the Royal Australian Navy. The MCM in a day project has been an exciting project for our engineers and has enabled us to establish a pipeline for autonomous systems talent; building the workforce of the future.” Troy Stephen, Vice President Underwater Systems, Thales Australia.
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