Euronews joined the French hunt for a day during the 2025 Ariadne exercise on the island of Crete, Greece.
A hunting exercise in the underwater mines took place this week off the coast of Crete, Greece, involving specialized military teams in Greece, France, Romania, Belgium and the United States.
Commander Stéphane Méline, from the search for French mines CapricornI told Euronews that the objective of the multinational antiminas exercise is to work in interoperability with the Allied Sea. “
The equipment, equipped with deminid divers and autonomous drones, to rummage at the bottom of the sea to prove their ability to detect mines under enemy pressure.
“The stage is a country, Minoas Land, which is prosperous, with a terrorist faction that would have undermined the areas. Therefore, the purpose of our working group is to intervene based on a UN resolution to guarantee the freedom of circulation of maritime areas in the territorial waters of Minoas Land,” said Commander Méline.
Currently, underwater divestment is mainly used to eliminate mines or non -infinite bombs that have been used in several conflicts since World War I: several hundred gerais mines or not activated are eliminated along the French coast every year, protecting the theaters of operations before the detachment of other military bujos.
The next -generation naval drones, which are expected to work in the coming years, should revolutionize the process, since they will replace the need for defominated ships such as Capricorne navigate on underwater fields, which endangers the lives of dozens of sailors.
The French army is currently testing such a drone.
