The French defence procurement agency has selected Thales Underwater Systems to replace the mine warfare system designed to maintain surveillance over the approaches to Brest and protect the SSBN fleet, and to conduct power projection and fleet support missions.
The contract further consolidates the world leadership of Thales in mine warfare solutions.
The programme has two key objectives: to replace the DUBM41 sonars equipping the BRS sonar vessels (Bâtiments Remorqueurs de Sonar) for surveillance of the approaches to Brest and protection of the SSBN fleet; and to provide an autonomous vehicle deploying the same sonar as the BRS for power projection and fleet support missions.
The replacement sonar selected is Thales Underwater Systems’ new DUBM44 sidescan Synthetic Aperture Sonar (SAS). The new technology, the first to be developed on an operational sonar, significantly increases sonar resolution, making it possible to detect and classify objects measuring a few centimetres across at a range of 150 m.
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