The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.

The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.

The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.

The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.

The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.

The Inspector 125 USV in the LARS onboard VN Rebel. (Belgium Naval & Robotics)

The launch and recovery system (LARS) developed for the Belgium/Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement mine countermeasures (rMCM) programme has completed live testing with an Inspector 125 unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in the Mediterranean.

Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium of Naval Group and ECA Group – said the 13 January trials demonstrated “relevance and reliability in real conditions”. LARS testing from the chartered offshore support vessel VN Rebel was witnessed from representatives of both the Belgian and Netherlands navies.

Belgium Naval & Robotics was contracted in May 2019 by Belgian Defense Forces for the delivery of a next-generation stand-off BE/NL rMCM capability based on mother ships employing a ‘toolbox' of offboard MCM systems. The 10-year contract, valued at almost EUR2 billion (USD2.27 billion), covers the supply of 12 2,700-tonne displacement mother ship vessels (six for each navy) plus MCM toolboxes based on unmanned/autonomous systems drawn from ECA's own UMIS offboard MCM suite.