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Exail
Exail builds its own USV and AUV platforms plus the full autonomy and mission stack: UMISOFT mission-management software, UMISAS synthetic-aperture sonars, and DriX supervision for over-the-horizon uncrewed hydrographic and mine-warfare operations. The company is prime drone supplier in the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme, delivering a drone 'toolbox' of surface, underwater, towed and mine-disposal robots for twelve vessels. Dual-use customer base: navies (Belgium/Netherlands, France, UAE, NATO) and civil hydrographic/ocean-science operators (NOAA, SHOM). Entity founded 2022, but its constituent businesses (ECA Group est. 1936, iXblue est. 2000) are decades old.
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Specifications remain vendor-claimed
A18-D
- Autonomous underwater vehicle equipped with UMISAS 120 synthetic-aperture sonar for mine detection; three units per vessel in the Belgian-Dutch rMCM drone toolbox
Programme composition as reported by trade press
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DriX H-8
- Uncrewed surface vessel for autonomous hydrographic survey, integrated into NOAA survey operations after 2019 force-multiplier trials aboard NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson
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DriX H-9
- Long-endurance USV with up to 20 days of autonomy depending on payload, deployable from shore or from a host vessel
Vendor endurance claim in dated product-order announcement
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Inspector 125
- Uncrewed surface vessel serving as drone mothership in the rMCM toolbox, two units per mine-countermeasures vessel
Programme composition as reported by trade press
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K-Ster C
- Expendable mine identification and destruction robot integrated in the rMCM toolbox alongside Seascan identification vehicles
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