• France and the United Kingdom marked the tenth anniversary of the Lancaster House treaties by signing a joint contract for Thales to launch the production of the MMCM (Maritime Mine Counter Measures) program, under Phase 2. Phase 1 initiated in 2015 was to demonstrate and qualify the technology.
• With this contract, French and British Navies equip themselves with the world’s first fully integrated unmanned mine countermeasures system of systems.
• The system has been tested and demonstrated under real operational scenarios at sea in France and the United Kingdom.
• Thales, together with its main partners (ECA Group, L3Harris and Saab), is now awarded to deliver these systems starting from 2022 to the Navies.
PARIS LA DÉFENSE-Sunday 29 November 2020 [ AETOS Wire ]
(BUSINESS WIRE) -- Following the first phase of the program in which two demonstrators have successfully proven their operational performances at sea, Fra
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