Thales’s first autonomous UK mine hunting vessel, the Ariadne, as part of a new unmanned system to detect and eliminate seabed mines, was delivered to the Royal Navy in March 2025. (Photo: Thales)
The U.K. Ministry of Defense last week announced it received its first new end-to-end autonomous mine hunting vessel, the unmanned surface vessel (USV) RNMB Ariadne.
In a March 14 announcement, the government said this vessel was designed and built in the U.K.…