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Belgium and Netherlands finalise minehunter decision

18th March 2019 - 13:40 GMT | by Jack Richardson in London

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The competition to supply the navies of Belgium and the Netherlands with their next generation mine countermeasure (MCM) vessel has been won by Belgium Naval and Robotics.

The €1.1billion ($1.25 billion) tender, issued in the summer of 2018, will see 12 ships (six for each navy) and their unmanned systems delivered over the ten-year period of the contract.

The consortium consists of Naval Group and ECA Group, with the latter supplying surface and sub-surface unmanned systems to destroy mines from a safe distance. This marks a further advance in the trend of using modular systems in this role, allowing for

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