According to a PR published by Naval Group on March 17, 2022, the company and the start-up Icarus Swarms, part of Dronisos, have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop drone swarm solutions for navies.
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Demonstration of drone swarms (Picture source: Naval Group)
To strengthen their collaboration, Naval Group and Icarus Swarms have formalized their partnership in a memorandum of understanding signed on February, 1st, 2022.
The complementary expertise of Naval Group and Icarus Swarms in the field of drone swarms should lead to the emergence of tomorrow's uses.
This partnership has already led to regular trials, some of which are carried out in collaboration with the French Navy. Naval Group and Icarus Swarms have already carried out simulated attacks of ten to one hundred drones to test systems for detecting asymmetric threats using Dronisos' Certifence product.
In a prospective approach similar to the one of the Red Team1, Naval Group imagines the use cases and new threats of tomorrow. These swarms of intelligent drones could, for example, be deployed underwater and in the air to protect the diving and surfacing of a submarine from
detection.
These new applications will be developed and tested, in particular in New Aquitaine, at the Naval Group site in Angoulême-Ruelle as well as at the Dronisos offices in Bordeaux.
The Angoulême-Ruelle site specializes in the design, manufacture, testing, and maintenance of a wide range of equipment for the surface and submarine vessels of its navy customers.
