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Unmanned Marine Systems

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress the Royal Navy has made on the (a) development and (b) deployment of autonomous maritime mine hunting technologies.

answeredMinistry of Defence

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Answering body
Ministry of Defence
Tabled
5 Mar 2025
Target answer date
10 Mar 2025
Answer
10 Mar 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 5 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent progress the Royal Navy has made on the (a) development and (b) deployment of autonomous maritime mine hunting technologies.

  2. 10 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 10 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    The Royal Navy has made significant progress in developing autonomous maritime mine hunting technologies, since the delivery of the WILTON mine hunting system in 2020. WILTON has been assimilated into the wider Mine Hunting Capability (MHC) programme whic...

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