After twenty years and billions of dollars, littoral combat ships are finally performing mine countermeasures as originally planned. By Kyle Gunn Published Sep 9, 2025 3:20 PM EDT After more than two ...

A new unmanned ship with a 99% sea mine detection rate has been delivered to the French Navy. Developed by Thales, the surface naval drone reduces personnel exposure to hazardous environments.

The U.S. Navy embarked the first Mine Countermeasures Mission Package (MCM MP) aboard USS Canberra (LCS 30), April 18, service officials announced. With the MCM mission package now onboard LCS 30, the ...

The littoral combat ship USS Canberra arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain last week, the first of four new vessels expected to replace aging mine countermeasures ships in the Middle East, ...

MANAMA, Bahrain — Sailors at a base home to the Navy’s hub in the Middle East bid farewell Thursday to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a mission handoff to four larger vessels ...

An Inspector 125 USV being trialled on the LARS of Oostende during its sea acceptance tests. (Naval Group) Oostende, the first new mine-countermeasures vessel (MCMV) destined for the Belgian Navy ...

Vlissingen, the first MCM mother ship destined for the RNLN as part of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme, started initial sea trials off the coast of Concarneau, France, on 27 March. (Naval Group) ...

Leidos Holdings, Inc. LDOS recently revealed that its sea systems team has developed Sea Dart, an uncrewed underwater vessel (UUV). Sea Dart is a high-performance, affordable, flexible and adaptable ...

Hellenic Navy Lt. (OF-2) Michail Ntagkounakis speaks with exercise participants from the Royal British and Ukrainian Navies in the Maritime Operations Center during Sea Breeze 2025-2 on July 2, 2025.

Exercise participants look over static displays of equipment used by other countries during the opening ceremony of Sea Breeze 2025-2 on June 30, 2025. U.S. Navy Photo Exercise Sea Breeze 25-2, a mine ...