countermine

The growing modern mine threat is so significant, that the Navy has been fast-tracking a wide range of new countermine attack and defense strategies.

The DOT&E report recommended that the program begin to emphasize countermine missions, due to its track record of successful upgrades.

This adaptation involves not only adding weapons and sensors but also adjusting and utilizing its existing war assets such as counter-submarine warfare, surface attack and countermine missions.

The concept, when it comes to application, could involve newer, upgraded sonar, networking systems, new weapons and countermine technologies.

This emphasis is, by design, intended to launch more dispersed, disaggregated, yet “networked” assaults at times connecting the ACV with smaller unmanned vessels to perform reconnaissance, countermine and attack missions.