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India Issues RFI for Four Used Mine Countermeasure Vessels
The Indian MoD issued a request for information intending to lease or procure three to four Mine Countermeasure Vessels (MMCV)…
30 August 2021
The Indian MoD issued a request for information intending to lease or procure three to four Mine Countermeasure Vessels (MMCV)…
The Program Executive Office for Unmanned and Small Combatants (PEO USC) has completed the ship-based Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) …
The Royal Netherlands Navy is conducting operational tests and evaluations of its future unmanned mine warfare systems, as part of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program.
The minesweeper Georgy Kurbatov has joined the Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet’s press office said. The flag-raising ceremony took place at the Baltic Fleet’s main base in Baltiysk.
Royal Navy minehunters HMS Ramsey and HMS Blyth were formally decommissioned on August 4, during a poignant ceremony at Rosyth Dockyard.
The Russian Ministry plans to expand the capabilities of project 20380 corvettes. The Izvestia daily said the warships may be armed with unmanned underwater craft to fight mines.
Personnel from Royal Australian Navy (RAN) hydrographic survey ship HMAS Melville laid two inert minefields as part of Exercise Talisman Sabre 21 (TS21).
Naval News earlier this year visited the Thales site of Brest to learn about the latest developments in the French-British MMCM program. We learned about some key milestones being achieved.
A steel cutting ceremony for the Belgian Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy mine countermeasure vessel (MCM) program was held at Crist Shipyard in Gdynia (Poland), on July 19. The first steel sheet was cut for the Belgian Navy’s first-in-class MCM vessel.
In the frame of the EDIDP (European Defence Industrial Development Programme) and in line with PESCO project MAS MCM (Maritime semi- Autonomous Mine Counter Measures) Naval Group Belgium, a 100% subsidiary of Naval Group, will lead MIRICLE ((Mine Risk Clearance for Europe) project for a period of twenty-four months.
