In February, the Royal Navy received its first serial production Maritime Mine Counter Measures MMCM system an advanced suite of technologies designed to locate, classify and neutralise naval mines, operated either autonomously or via remote control. The USV can hunt at between 8 to 10 knots while conventional mine hunters may typically move at 2 knots when searching. For the Royal Navy, deliveries of the MMCM systems will help recover some of the capabilities lost by the decommissioning of all but one of the Sandown-class MCMV. Unfortunately, RFA personnel shortages leave the Mine Threat and Exploitation Group without the motherships that the autonomous. systems were intended to operate from. For now these assets must be deployed from ashore or commercial vessels of opportunity.