The future of mine warfare in today’s and tomorrow’s naval domain

Most countries rely heavily on uninterrupted and safe marine traffic. As the on-going race between stealth, CIWSs and the new generation of hypersonic missiles intensifies, these often expensive weapon systems require active monitoring and situational awareness on vast border areas. While this is feasible in more condensed key areas, it is not the only option to guard and protect large coastal areas.

Naval mines have since their humble beginnings offered a deterrence and force-multiplier – available even for smaller nations to deny entry to their waters for even from vastly more powerful adversaries. Unfortunately, the naval mine sector has not been receiving the same amount of attention, appreciation and funding for R&D as its more dynamic flying counterpart, which has led to the current situation, where many nations have large amounts of close-to-century-old contact mines in their inventory which lack the flexibility, the effectiveness and most importantly the operational safety of their modern counterparts.

We show, how you can both maximize the capability of your current inventory, how our new generation of TURSO naval mines perform and how these modern systems integrate into today’s and tomorrow’s complex naval warfare domain.

Preliminary Agenda:
• Welcome Remarks, Program and Practicalities
Kristian Tornivaara, CBO, DA Defence & Aerospace
• Role of Minelaying in Future Naval Combat Theatre
Vice ADM (ret.) Kari Takanen,
Senior Advisor, DA Defence & Aerospace
• Modern Influence Mine and Its Main Characteristics
Roope Kotiranta, CRDO, DA-Group
• Modernization Options for Legacy Naval Mines
Roope Kotiranta, CRDO, DA-Group
• Modular Minelaying Capabilities and Its Benefits to Operations, Infrastructure and Logistics
Roope Kotiranta
• Open Discussion and Questions