Iver3 “The defense community is ahead of the com-mercial market with regard to processing real-time high Autonomous resolution data in-mission and making the vehicle respond Underwater to it.”VehiclesRichard Mills, Kongsberg MaritimeRapid Data Collection For Coastal ApplicationsMine Hunting with theRoyal Norwegian NavySide Scan RNoN MCM-capability today exists with three Minesweepers and three Bathy Mine hunters. The main MCM-tool on the mine hunters is the HUGIN AUV, Water Quality specially designed for MCM-operations. The minehunters are ? tted for HUGIN AUVs, but in addition the Navy has containers designed for HUGIN operations; Magnetometerwhich means the containers with HUGIN can be used from vessels of opportu-nity and shipped world-wide.The concept of the MCM-operations is to send HUGIN into a danger area (keeping the vessel outside this area) searching for mines. This operation is fully autonomous, as this is done covertly. During the mission HUGIN will pro-cess all data and when recovered the operator will have access to data for pos-sible localized, classi? ed and identi? ed mine like objects. Positions of objects of interest will then be transferred to the one-shot system (Mine sniper), which then are sent out to the actual position to destroy the objects. The RNoN is presently (as many other nations) looking at a future MCM-capability, and a trend we foresee is more autonomy. So one solution could be unmanned surface platforms launching and recovering AUVs.www.ocean-server.comwww.marinetechnologynews.com+1 508-678-0550MTR #4 (18-33).indd 31 MTR #4 (18-33).indd 31 4/30/2015 11:16:28 AM4/30/2015 11:16:28 AM