This week’s video comes from Atlas Elektronik UK, which has been working with the Royal Navy and Northrop Grumman to demonstrate its unmanned high-speed mine hunting system at Unmanned Warrior.
The company’s ARCIMS Mine Counter Measures (MCM) solution is one of over 50 vehicles, sensors and systems, developed by industry, academia and the military taking part in exercises off the west coast of Scotland and Wales.
The ARCIMS system is equipped with Northrop Grumman’s AQS-24B Synthetic Aperture Sonar and is scheduled to participate in the Mine Hunting Challenge today.
Unmanned Warrior brings together UAVs plus Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) and Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) for a series of challenges.
Participants in Unmanned Warrior include Thales, BAE Systems, Qinetiq, Southampton University, the National Oceanography Centre and dstl. A range of capabilities can be seen in this video round-up.
Whoever added the sound-track? The sort of noise, I associate with my six-year old grandson’s CBBE’s and Thomas the tank-engine DVDs. Though, come to think of it, what’s the difference. The military fat-controllers have fancy-dress, not top-hats: but both are pompous and largely irrelevant?
I am not surprised by Mike’s comment! I have seen a few recent promotional videos for all sorts of vehicles both commercial and military – it seems the same production teams are being used. Perhaps this is what they are now taught during their training?
Why is a sound track needed at all? it is not like it imparts any more information than the captions.
Having watched both videos I would suggest that the second is the most irritating. The problem for me is that the sub-Bond music and flashy visuals actually distract from the information being presented rather than enhancing it.