Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 96299

Unmanned Marine Systems: Minesweepers

Tabled: 2 December 2025

Answered: 17 December 2025

Question

James Cartlidge

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to his Department's press release entitled Royal Navy trial high-tech autonomous mine hunting capability, published on 10 December 2024, how many trials have taken place as part of the Apollo Marit

Answer

Luke Pollard

The Apollo Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM) platform is the UK concept demonstrator for the Mine Hunting Capability (MHC) Programme.During the period 2021- 2025, the Royal Navy conducted a series of trials and evaluation work with the platform throug...

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