Thales joins forces with Kongsberg Maritime to support the Royal Navy’s future Type 92 anti-submarine Uncrewed Surface Vessel

• Thales in the UK has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Kongsberg Maritime to develop an Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) solution for the Royal Navy’s Type 92 (T92) requirement.
• This cooperation combines Thales’ proven ASW technologies with Kongsberg Maritime’s Arctic Hunter Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) and proven autonomous technology, in order to accelerate hybrid naval capability.
• Thales brings world-leading AI enhanced underwater sensing, tactical planning and secure communications expertise to a proposed next-generation ASW solution for the Royal Navy.
• The UK–Norwegian collaboration will support maritime security and deterrence in the North Atlantic and High North, in line with evolving underwater threats.

This proposed solution combines Thales’ advanced ASW expertise with Kongsberg Maritime’s Arctic Hunter USV to create a credible, rapidly deployable ASW solution, aligned with the Royal Navy’s Hybrid Navy ambitions and the growing requirement to detect, deter and defend across the North Atlantic.

The Royal Navy’s move towards a Hybrid Navy generates needs to connect sensors, systems and assets into a coherent fighting solution, and one which is capable of detecting, tracking and responding to threats across an increasingly complex underwater theatre.

Thales is a key enabler of this transformation, bringing decades of expertise in underwater warfare, advanced sonar technology as used on the Royal Navy T23 and T26 frigates, acoustic modelling, tactical planning and secure military communications, with AI-assisted exploitation developed by cortAix, Thales’ AI accelerator.

Kongsberg Maritime will contribute its Arctic Hunter USV, providing an established autonomous platform around which an integrated ASW solution can be developed.

Combined with UK platform build, the cooperation brings together the essential elements of an end-to-end ASW solution: autonomous platforms, advanced underwater sensing, tactical intelligence and secure connectivity.

This partnership reinforces the UK–Norwegian defence and industrial cooperation. By combining their expertise, Thales and Kongsberg Maritime aim to help address shared security challenges in the North Atlantic and High North, while supporting NATO’s maritime security and deterrence across its northern flank.

“This cooperation is about bringing together complementary strengths to deliver a connected, adaptable and effective Anti-Submarine Warfare solution, while reinforcing the UK and Norway’s shared commitment to security and deterrence across the North Atlantic. The future Hybrid Navy will be defined by how effectively the platforms are connected, how they share information and how quickly they can turn that information into operational advantage. Thales brings the underwater sensing, tactical planning and secure communications expertise that will be critical to making this vision a reality.” ​ Phil Siveter, CEO of Thales UK

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