Kraken Robotics has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with SEFINE SISAM, a Turkish strategic unmanned systems research firm.
Under the agreement, Kraken will work with SISAM to integrate its KATFISH towed synthetic aperture sonar into SISAM’s mission planning software and develop automatic target recognition capabilities for Kraken’s synthetic aperture sonar system.
The MOU follows an at-sea demonstration conducted earlier this year in which KATFISH was launched and recovered from SEFINE’s RD-22 unmanned surface vessel off the coast of Istanbul, validating the system’s ability to rapidly detect and classify mine-like objects and critical underwater infrastructure at high resolution in an operational environment.
Bernard Mills, Executive Vice President of Defence at Kraken Robotics, said the partnership builds on that earlier work. “We’re pleased to continue our work with SEFINE following a successful at-sea demonstration earlier this year. This partnership poises us to rapidly develop and deliver relevant capability in a region that combines industrial excellence and operational need. Together, we are advancing fully integrated, autonomous solutions for seabed warfare and mine countermeasures, enhancing the speed, accuracy, and efficiency of maritime security operations,” he said, as quoted in the press release.
KATFISH is a high-speed towed sonar system designed for mine countermeasures and seabed survey missions, capable of producing detailed acoustic imagery of the ocean floor. Synthetic aperture sonar more broadly has become an increasingly important tool for naval mine countermeasures, offering substantially higher resolution than conventional sonar at operationally relevant speeds. The addition of automatic target recognition capability is intended to reduce the analytical burden on operators and accelerate the classification of detected objects, a key bottleneck in mine hunting operations.
Turkey has invested significantly in its domestic unmanned systems industry in recent years, with SEFINE and SISAM among a number of Turkish entities developing maritime autonomous platforms for both national and export markets.
The MOU adds to a busy period for Kraken Robotics. In March 2026, the Canadian company announced the acquisition of Covelya Group Limited, a UK-based provider of underwater technology solutions whose subsidiaries include Sonardyne International, EIVA, Forcys, Wavefront Systems, Voyis Imaging, and Chelsea Technologies. That acquisition was pending regulatory approval and expected to close during the second quarter of 2026 at the time of the SISAM announcement.
Best way to solve our frigate problem is rapid acquisition of drones and non military based sonar solutions. It seems the royal navy and British industry is moving fast on this.
Kraken seems to be at the cutting edge of this.
Sounds like a plan. Maybe the T26 order should be reduced now that Kraken are on point.
Oh and glad to see you back posting, I had a sneaking suspicion that you had been abducted by Vulcans (Spock), or worse still you had a bad case of Klingons and had joined the “Great unwashed”.
Been out on election duty for past two days,
Getting hammered 😀
Oh.
I had you down as a Green !
Electric Car, UMRCH (un manned remote controlled Hoover) Wind assisted !!! 😁
Seriously though, I think It’s going to be Interesting times ahead for the balance and mix of High end platforms and Drones.
When Is the DIP announcement again ?
I expect the announcement of the cancellation of the DIP to be very soon…
I doubt it will be announced as a cancellation more split into several parts and called different things.
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Effectively, it has been further stalled as Gordon Brown is in charge of raising the money.
Don’t expect and new money and expect existing money to be re-anounced several times. Also expect various off balance sheet manoeuvres such as Air Tanker.
This is the ultimate joke announcement – Starmite ‘it is on my desk’ -> ‘it is now off my desk as it hasn’t crossed my desk’ -> ‘I’ve now given it to the guy who didn’t fund the armed forces between 1997 and 2010….to find out how to fund this. Don’t worry he is very left wing so he won’t cut any social spending. He has good form in off balance sheet funding that costs a fortune down the line – don’t worry I don’t care as I won’t be around in office when the bills come in.
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I assumed he meant getting drunk, but I suspect you may be correct.
Possibly both, trying to drown his sorrows?
Turkeys is one of those interesting geostrategic spinning coins that will have significant implications on the way it falls. In the end it’s utterly vital to the containment of Russia from the Mediterranean Sea and so a key linchpin of European defence.. but on the flip side of that coin it’s got the potential to move away from being a secular state, become more misaligned with European nations or at the extreme end have a war with Greece or Israel
Which way Turkey tumbles is one of those key European security questions.
Well we all need to remember that Turkey,
Is not just for Christmas.
I can see you getting hammered at this rate. 😆
Lol.
I’m feeling a little mischievous lately 😊
Turkiye will be nothing but a secular state. That was laid down by the father of the Turkish nation Mustafa Kemal Ataturk.
Yes but it’s been a bit hammered recently. It was also part of the unwritten constitution that the military saw itself ans was seen as the defender of Kemalism, as soon as as Kemalism and the secularist state was seen to be at risk the military wouls essentially stage a coup overthrow the government and reset secular democracy. It was actually an effective system with 4 coups in 40 years…the problem was the 5 coup inn2016 was essentially driven by external political pressure ( the Turkish expatriates in the US) was ill conceived had no internal support and failed. This coup failure essentially lead to a civil counter coup in which the president seized and centralised very significant powers, creating a far more populararist authoritarian state..this essentially puts Kemalism at very significant risk.. and i honestly don’t know in the future which way Turkey will go because there is a rising level of a more Islamist view in Turkey after all the AKP started life as Milli Görüş and Erdoğan was a lieutenant of Erbakan and Erbakan is as far from a Kemalist as you can get without crossing over into extremist territory.