COLOGNE, Germany — Swedish vendor Saab has obtained a contract to ship underwater autos for blowing up sea mines to an Anglo-French program, the corporate introduced Jan. 8.
The deal, valued at 300 million Swedish kronor (U.S. $37 million), is for Saab’s Multi-Shot Mine Neutralization System, or MuMNS, which is comprised of a remote-controlled automobile able to inspecting all method of mines and attaching explosive fees to them.
The robots can carry three such masses, that means a number of mines will be readied for detonation throughout one run.
The corporate expects to ship the primary autos to France’s Thales, which manages the binational program as the principle contractor, in 2022. The pan-European Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation manages the hassle on behalf of France and the UK beneath the identify Maritime Mine Counter Measures, or MMCM.
That program, in flip, envisions a wholesale overhaul of countermine tools and techniques in each international locations, relying closely on unmanned platforms.
“We’re proud to announce our first prospects of the MuMNS,” Görgen Johansson, head of Saab subsidiary Dynamics, was quoted as saying in an announcement. “It’s an awesome success to ship capabilities that allow these navies to carry out safer and extra environment friendly mine countermeasures operations, for the reason that operator can neutralize a number of sea mines from a secure distance.”
The French and British anti-mine program is rooted within the 2010 Lancaster Home Treaty between the 2 international locations. Preliminary research work started in 2015.
Moreover Saab’s automobile, there are 5 different applied sciences rounding out the MMCM bundle, together with further robots and sensors. Producers embrace firms ECA, ASV and Thales.