Marine Tech is among the seven companies selected for the DANAE program by the Defence Innovation Agency (AID).

This program aims to develop and test innovative marine drone systems designed to enhance the operational capabilities of the French Navy.

We had the opportunity to participate in a week of full-scale trials in the Toulon harbor, under real operational conditions, and to present our solution to Ms. Catherine Vautrin, Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans.

For this operation, Marine Tech installed its drone kit on an existing platform within very tight deadlines, in order to meet the selection trials.

A key milestone for the next phase of the program.

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We are proud to announce that Helio Water has been selected from among 10 French companies to represent French industrial innovation at the Choose France exhibition.

A model of HELIO is currently on display at the Château de Versailles, as part of an event organized by the French Presidency. The exhibition welcomes government and industry delegations from all over the world.

It’s a rich exchange of views, and a fine endorsement of our autonomous water production solution, designed to meet the environmental challenges of our time.

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After several months of R&D, we are proud to present Sentinelle, our new tethered aerial drone system.

This system – comprising a quadcopter, a landing platform and an automated winch – enables extended, secure aerial deployment from a moving vessel.

Designed to withstand the most hostile marine environments (sea spray, strong winds, humidity), Sentinelle pushes back the limits of onboard UAV use.

Its ability to take off and land dynamically on a moving vessel was made possible by the development of automatic piloting software coupled with innovative automated winch technology.

These are the aspects that set Sentinelle apart from other solutions.
The first concrete application: the French Navy has equipped itself with the first example of this solution, unprecedented in France.

The drone can carry various types of payload:
Long-range stabilized cameras with infrared, target tracking, communication relays to increase range and data rates between units in a naval air group.

With its unlimited autonomy, insensitivity to jamming and discretion, Sentinelle is the future of onboard surveillance, in the service of maritime sovereignty.

Already available in kit form for the naval version, a version for land operations is currently under development.

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On Thursday January 16, we were delighted to welcome the Prefect of the Var, Philippe Mahé, and the Mayor of Six Fours les Plages, Jean-Sébastien Vialatte, for a tour of our production facilities at Marine Tech headquarters.

In the background, our development program around the Manta drone, which was selected as part of the CORIMER call for projects financed by FRANCE 2030. This ambitious project began in April 2024, and Marine Tech and its partners Hologarde, SHIP AS A SERVICE and i2S – Innovative Imaging Solutions are working on the development of an innovative solution for mapping and monitoring coastal areas and the deep sea.

The visit provided an opportunity for rich and convivial exchanges, enabling us to reiterate our thanks for the trust placed in this project by the French government.

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Marine Tech and Hologarde are exclusively presenting their Marine Garde solution at the EURONAVAL exhibition in Paris.

This solution, awarded the GICAN Innovation Award at the EURONAVAL Innovation Awards, is built around the next-generation Manta X drone project. A model of the Manta drone is displayed at stand D66, located in the Pôle Mer Méditerranée pavilion.

Marine Tech and Hologarde thank the jury members: Alain Bovis, President of the ACADEMIE DE MARINE, Timothée Moulinier from GICAN, Bertrand Gouillart, Head of Innovation at the Defence Innovation Agency, Luca Peruzzi, and Thibaut Farineau, Innovation Director at NAVAL GROUP.

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Recap of the first edition of the 2024 Dronathlon, organized by the French Navy (CEPN) and the DGA – Directorate General of Armaments, in collaboration with the Defense Innovation Agency, from October 7 to 11. This unique event brought together 35 companies to test drone solutions in realistic, multi-environment scenarios.

Marine Tech participated in two exercises as part of two consortia :

Poséidrones with SEABER (leader), Hologarde, and HEXADRONE.
Amphi D with Thales (leader), DRONE ACT, and PILGRIM TECHNOLOGY.

In the first scenario, the RSV Sea Observer was equipped with a USBL beacon to track and geolocate two SEABER AUVs in real time. Their mission was to map a coastal area and detect underwater targets (such as mines). Despite stormy conditions, the operation was a success.

An aerial drone (the Tundra 2 from HEXADRONE) complemented the setup by flying over a terrestrial zone to identify events (objects and ground troops). The real-time feedback demonstrated the value of these advanced technologies for the Navy.

A few days later, the second scenario involved deploying the surface drone RSV, this time equipped with an underwater deployment system for a FLASH IG sonar (provided by Thales) for submarine detection and monitoring.

As highlighted by the magazine Le Marin, ‘the sailors were full of praise for this craft that withstood the storm and thunder,’ our two scenarios were successfully carried out and validated in harsh weather conditions, with winds reaching 100 km/h and two-meter swells, allowing us to determine the operational limits of the various systems.

These operations provided a valuable opportunity to assess the drones’ performance and better understand operational needs in this complex environment.

We would like to thank all participants, as well as our partners, for this enriching experience.

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Two solutions developed by Marine Tech, HELIO (www.heliowater.fr) and NOTIL (https://lnkd.in/eTr97vUG), were selected by the Climate Solutions Accelerator and presented at the annual conference held on Thursday June 6 in Cannes. The event was very well received, and concrete use cases are planned in the coming months in the Southern Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region. A big thank you to the event organizer (Norbert Barré) for this initiative to bring together leading contractors, including EDF, GRDF, SUEZ, ADEME, CNES, and the local authorities present (Communauté d’Agglomération du Pays de Grasse, Cannes Pays de Lérins, Cap Azur, Communauté Agglo Sophia Antipolis, Alpes d’Azur), as well as the 18 companies selected for their innovative solutions with a positive impact on the climate.

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The aim of these awards is to encourage the development of innovative regional initiatives in favor of the environment.

We would like to thank the Caisse Régionale Crédit Agricole Provence Côte d’Azur for this distinction. This award strengthens our determination to pursue our mission of sustainable development and to innovate for a greener future.

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The aim of the project is to develop a solution for mapping and monitoring coastal areas down to the deep seabed using the UHV MANTA underwater drone, operated using algorithms incorporating autonomous decision-making. New-generation cameras and an underwater docking station for data transfer and rapid recharging will significantly increase mission autonomy. The system will be completed by a deep-sea ROV to provide the intervention capability required for complex operations.

It’s an ambitious program, but one that already benefits from a set of existing technological building blocks, and will have a budget of over 5 million euros for 36 months of development.

During his recent visit to Toulon, the French Minister of the Armed Forces, Mr. Sébastien Lecornu, welcomed the continued development of the MANTA project through France 2030, because, as he pointed out, it is a project resulting from a Rapid-/DGA– Direction Générale de l’Armement andDefense Innovation Agency program.

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