Drones to become the new naval mine hunters under Morrison pledge
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Advanced navies worldwide are increasingly turning to drones to do mine hunting and clearing work at sea.
Marcus Hellyer, a former Defence Department official and now a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, said that using autonomous and unmanned sea vehicles allowed the crewed ship to stay at the edge of a minefield, keeping naval personnel safer.
The Morrison government has promised if re-elected to fast-track the building of two new mine hunting naval ships.Credit:Nine Newspapers
“Common sense has prevailed,” he said of the decision. “Rather than keeping going down the path where you have old technology being extended at great cost, this will introduce new technology more quickly and that’s a good thing.
“The current path does keep the human at the centre of the minefield, but the new approach lets them stay outside the minefield and let autonomous vehicles go in and do the dangerous work.”
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