SLAMF: The French Navy's new unmanned mine warfare system
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Deep dive into 'SLAMF', the new unmanned mine warfare system of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) with the commander of the Mine Warfare Flotilla. This system combines unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) and unmanned surface vehicles (USV) and will enable sailors to operate outside of the mine field.
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The SLAMF program will replace all legacy mine warfare platforms (Tripartite-class mine hunters, sonar towing vessels, diver support vessels). The SLAMF program will help secure the deployment of the French Navy’s strategic units (nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines and aircraft carrier) and protect access to French ports. It can also support the deployment of a naval action force, secure the evacuation of nationals by sea, participate in crisis prevention or intervene in a contested environment.
This first part of the SLAMF program (known as MMCM in the UK), is the result of a Franco-British cooperation and is part of the Lancaster House military agreement (2010). The contract for the design, development and production of the prototypes (one per country) was signed in March 2015 between Thales and OCCAR on behalf of the two countries.
The architecture of a SLAMF system is composed of two USVs, one equipped with a towed sonar and the other with a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), and two UAVs, responsible for detecting, classifying and locating mines. The remotely operated robot (MUMMS by Saab) is used to identify and neutralize mines. Exail, a Thales subcontractor, produces the UUVs equipped with Thales sonars.
The French Navy is set to take delivery of 8 SLAMF modules by 2030 as well as 6 MCM motherships for UAV/USV/UUV known as “bâtiments de guerre des mines” (BGDM) and 5 EOD divers support vessels known as “bâtiments base plongeurs démineurs nouvelle generation” (BBPD NG).
We also cover the E-POC: Expeditionary MCM Solution for the French Navy. Thales’s e-POC demonstrator is an easily transportable solution that will ultimately enable the French Navy to deploy underwater drones for mine countermeasures missions in any theatre of operations. It will provide a flexible mission management capability from outside the zone of operations, helping to keep naval personnel out of harm’s way. Thales e-POC comes in a small form-factor (akin to a large laptop with 3 screens) that is easily transportable. It will allow naval operators to control up to three mine warfare drones. Naval News learned that the French Navy mine warfare flotilla plans to use e-POC from RHIBs.
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The MCM (city class) are similar as those that will be used by Belgian and Netherlands Navies. 1st mothership M940 Oostende will be delivered to the Belgian Navy in 2025.
Interesting to see what Australia missed out on with SEA1905 being cancelled….
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I assume the ops room is specifically to defend & protect Brest ?
very cool
Australia shit the bed when they dropped Thales for SEA1905.
Ouais, après comme souvent les suédois sont impliquées dans le programme, bien plus que l'on ne le pense, ici Saab, avec les chars Leclerc c'est Volvo. Je commence à me poser la question de la réelle souveraineté de la France en terme de techno...
n'importe quoi le moteur du Leclerc est francais. Volvo et la Suede n'ont rien a voir avec. Le moteur V8x 1500 Hyperbar a ete produit par la Société Alsacienne de Construction Mécanique [SACM] (depuis rachete par Wartsila, societe Finlandaise).
@@lordtemplar9274 En effet j'ai confondu Suédois et Finlandais (c'est le jaguar qui a un moteur volvo) mais mon observation reste la même SACM n'étant plus détenue par des Français.
@@opalow_du moment que les usines et les compétence sont en France je ne vois pas le problème.
@@jeanhamid9873 le problème c’est la souveraineté, les compétences pour fabriquer le moteur ne sont plus en France, les brevets ne sont pas français, on est capable de produire le char par nous même sauf ce qui le fait avancer, et mm si j’entends que le développement est cher et que nous avons de toute manière des intérêts communs avec le pays qui nous les fournit, cela reste regrettable.
This whole new MCM will be one disaster including new City Class Minehunters, to fragile, to diffecult to launch motherships from a frame, and not all weather proof. Average North sea weather makes these operations for i guess 70 % unworkable. a liitle seastate makes all useless...but that you dont sea in French mediterranee....
Proof ?