German and U.S. Navy mine warfare experts are preparing to take their technology to the Baltic Sea, including acoustic and magnetic sensors, to operate side by side and see the differences and to learn from one another with the goal of advancing technologies and techniques for the detection, classification, and mapping of bottom and buried munitions.

According to the U.S. Navy, this will be the first major milestone of the two countries’ joint Allied Munitions Detection Underwater (ALMOND) project.