Evaluation of Unmanned Technologies in Multinational Operations

Exail’s DriX USV has been selected by the US Navy to take part in the two-week International Maritime Exercise (IMX 23) to be held in Bahrain and Jordan from 5-16 March.

The largest naval exercise in the region, IMX 23 is a multinational event, involving over 50 partner nations and international organisations operating in the Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Gulf of Oman, Red Sea, Indian Ocean and East African coastal regions. It will include 7,000 personnel, 35 vessels and over 30 unmanned and artificial intelligence systems, including the DriX USV. The exercise aims at evaluating the use of combined unmanned technologies for deployment by inter-allied forces in the Gulf region: the USV will operate in Maritime Domain Awareness and Mine Countermeasures Missions tactical environments.

“To be able to take part in such a major naval exercise , along with some of the industry’s best, is both a great honour and a recognition of the hard work the Exail teams put [into] the development of autonomous solutions, from the design of the platforms and their artificial intelligence, to the services we offer around their deployment [and we] are now looking forward to the start of IMX23 this Sunday, and are confident that, together with all other partners, we will demonstrate the high potential that deploying unmanned solutions in the naval domain represents,” stated Guillaume Eudeline, Exail’s Naval Autonomy Market Director.