HII and Thales Demonstrate Autonomous Mine Countermeasure Capability

HII and Thales announced an end-to-end autonomous mine-countermeasures demonstration on November 3, 2026, using Thales’ Expeditionary PathMaster architecture and HII’s REMUS 620 uncrewed underwater vehicle. HII’s Sea Launcher handled automated launch and recovery of the REMUS, which used a Thales SAMDIS 600 multi-aspect synthetic aperture sonar to find potential mines. A portable Thales operations centre coordinated the survey, AI-assisted sonar analysis and classification, and the ANGLER neutralisation system, demonstrating how equipment from different providers could carry out successive stages of a mine-clearance mission under common control.