The Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN) has awarded several contracts to Exail to provide a significant portion of the deliverables for a drone-based mine countermeasures solution.
As part of this program, the Singapore Navy is equipping itself with its own surface drones (USVs) provided by the local company ST Engineering, Exail's partner in this program.
These USVs will integrate high-performance inertial navigation systems, underwater acoustic positioning systems, and forward-looking sonar (FLS).
To carry out the mine clearance mission, the USVs will also be equipped with Exail's MIDS systems (mine identification and disposal systems), consisting of several dozen robotic systems in total.
These systems will include underwater drones for identification missions; expendable underwater drones that will be destroyed during mine neutralisation; control and command software for the MIDS system drones; and launch and recovery systems.
Several drone systems of these models have already been ordered by other clients, with volumes in the hundreds of units. They will be produced in series at a drone assembly site in Ostend, Belgium.
