ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) has been contracted by DE&S’s Mine Looking Functionality (MHC) Crew to provide Autonomous Underwater Car (AUV) Techniques for the UK Royal Navy (RN). The £32m contract, consists of supply of three MHC AUV Techniques comprising 9 automobiles in complete together with a complete coaching and help bundle to run for 3 years from supply. This supply to the MHC crew will see AEUK offering one other MCM toolbox component, alongside the in-service ARCIMS uncrewed floor vessels (USVs), with their superior minesweeping payloads and towed minehunting sonars, enabled by AEUK’s Unmanned Car (UxV) Autonomy software program and sensors.
Minister for Defence Procurement, Jeremy Quin, stated: “This revolutionary expertise is a large leap ahead for the Royal Navy and will likely be essential to defending the safety and security of our personnel. Supporting wider British business, it additionally reinforces our deal with guaranteeing the UK stays on the forefront of tackling defence threats.”
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Wesley Galliver, Head of Floor Ship Techniques stated “We’re very proud the superior mine countermeasures expertise that AEUK has invested in over time is now being offered to the RN for his or her flagship Mine Counter Measures (MCM) operational analysis programme. MCM is on the coronary heart of our enterprise and AEUK are delighted to reinforce the RN’s autonomous methods functionality.”
The MHC AUV System combines the ATLAS ELEKTRONIK GmbH medium-sized SeaCat® AUV, fitted with the most recent AEUK excessive decision Imaginative and prescient Artificial Aperture Sonar (SAS) and the Seebyte Neptune and Navy software program for superior planning and evaluation. AEUK have labored with Lidan Marine to develop a distant AUV dealing with system for the MHC AUV mission, offering a Launch and Restoration System (LARS) appropriate for operation from platforms such because the RN’s ARCIMS USVs and SEA Class workboats.
