PartnershipUpdated on 27 February 2025

MUM-T military divers/AUVs/ROVs

ERIC LAVAULT

Contractor for AQUALUNG Corporate at C&V Consulting

Toulon, France

About

Robots are not able to carry out operations to achieve complex military effects : intelligence and evidence gathering[1](extraction of bodies, documentation-sensitive material-explosives-ammunition recovery), ISR, subsurface offensive actions (combined Navy Seals/Attack Submarine on long range operations, requiring endurance capabilities), coastal intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance (amphibious operations, VSW mine warfare), expertise and investigations, state action at sea (wreckage[2], body or aircraft blackbox recoveries), CUI protection.

Let's not pit the two capabilities against each other.

[1] Underwater WIT (Weapon Intelligence Team) operation on Nord Stream II - Oct/Nov 2022.

[2] Sinking of the cruise liner « Costa Concordia » - January, 13th, 2012, 32 casualties. Sinking of frigate Helge Ingstad on November 8, 2018. Collisions destroyers USS Fitzgerald in June 2017 (7 casualties) and USS John McCain in August 2017 (10 casualties).

Organisation

C&V Consulting

Company

Brussels, Belgium

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