autonomous systems

Maritime Mine Countermeasures Programme (MMCM): The success of at-sea demonstrations turns the spotlight to the future

10 May 2021

Thales brings all this learning together in PathMaster, a complete approach designed to help customers cut through the complexity of unmanned mine warfare and explore the solutions that meet their future MCM needs and budgets.

Industrial Fellowship drives UK’s leadership in the development of Autonomous Systems

10 Dec 2020

The Royal Academy of Engineering has awarded an Industrial Fellowship to one of Thales’s leading researchers in autonomy, who in partnership with the University of Southampton, seeks to prove how the technology can transform the maritime sector…

Could autonomy be the answer to cleaner seas?

06 Dec 2019

Earlier this year, Thales and the University of Southampton announced they had formed a major partnership to collaborate in the research and development of the next generation of maritime autonomous systems. Ten months in we have caught up with Professor Stephen Turnock to hear more about the uses of autonomous technology at sea and what the joint team have been working on…

The Maritime Mine Countermeasures Programme: the French and British navies blaze the trail towards a global first with their revolutionary autonomous system

13 Sep 2019

Recognising the clear alignment of their objectives, in 2015, France and the UK fired the starting gun to embrace a new, unprecedented concept of operations: the Maritime Mine Countermeasures (MMCM) Programme. The ambition? By 2020, to be operating a sophisticated system comprising a tailored, toolbox of autonomous seaborne drones.