Indonesia taps Exail Technologies for next-gen surface and underwater drones

The Indonesian Navy has selected Exail Technologies to provide several robotic systems as part of its underwater mine countermeasure program.

As informed, the navy will receive a next-generation solution comprising surface and underwater drones from the UMIS system. According to Exail, this contract represents a very significant order, similar in scale to the one secured in the United Arab Emirates in 2024.

The company will deliver several autonomous drone systems to be deployed from two next-generation mine countermeasure vessels (KRI Pulau Fani and KRI Pulau Fanildo, operational since 2023). The system proposed by Exail includes:

• UMISOFT software to control and command the system’s drones;

• 4 USV Inspector 90 surface drones;

• LARS (Launch and Recovery Systems) to deploy and recover underwater drones from the USVs;

• SEASCAN underwater drones for identification missions;

• K-STER expendable underwater drones, which are destroyed during mine neutralization;

The program is expected to be executed over three years.

To remind, Exail recently was awarded contracts to deliver multiple robotic systems in the field of mine countermeasures to the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN). Beyond the Republic of Singapore Navy, other commercial processes are underway in the Asia-Pacific region for robotic mine countermeasure systems.