MUSAS y MAS-MCM

Spain is participating in the PESCO Maritime Unmanned Anti-Submarine System (MUSAS) project, which aims to develop and deliver an advanced C3 service (Command, Control & Communications) architecture for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW), taking advantage of cutting-edge technology and Artificial Intelligence (AI), in order to counter area denial methods. Moreover, it will enhance protection of high-value underwater infrastructures, as well as sea based energy systems, providing a rapid response with appropriate levels of force to intrusion or threat to Sea Lines of Communication.

It will create enhanced capabilities (unmanned platforms and sensors) to provide member states with the tools they need to protect their areas of sovereignty and/or responsibility, thus ensuring security and the usual activity in the Sea Lines of Communication.

The Maritime Autonomous System for MCM (MAS-MCM) is a PESCO project whose purpose is to develop, over the next decade, deployable, expeditionary and remotely operated Mine Countermeasures (MCM) capabilities based on unmanned (semi-) autonomous systems (UxV) that can be deployed either from manned platforms (ships, shore stations or units of opportunity) or unmanned platforms.

The national concept is based on the use of multi-domain (air, surface and underwater) unmanned technology with the capability to complete all stages of mine warfare. The modularity and scalability of the systems will bring about greater flexibility to adapt the capabilities of dedicated platforms to the assigned mission, or to complement the capabilities of other FLEET units with deployable modular MCM systems.