On the occasion of the inauguration of a new laboratory, the CEO of the National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research (Onera), Bruno Sainjon, revealed that the French Navy would soon be equipped with operational systems using the Girafe system (embedded cold atom research interferometric gravimeters).
This is next-generation quantum technology that is expected to appear on four Navy surface vessels by 2026-2027,
La Tribune
reports .
"This makes the Navy one of the first armies in the world to have operational systems based on this next-generation quantum technology if one is pessimistic and, if one is optimistic, perhaps the first army in the world," said Bruno Sainjon.
Location without GPS
Developed by Onera, the National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research, in cooperation with the hydrographic and oceanographic service of the navy, this quantum gravimeter should make it possible to map the oceans with unprecedented precision.
As a result, civilian and military ships will be able to constantly know where they are.
But this system will above all allow ships to do without American GPS or European Galileo satellite positioning systems.
This is also important in the planning and conduct of maritime and air-sea operations.
Finally, this system could be used for other applications such as the geophysics of oceanic zones, prospecting of the seabed (ore, oil), gravity mapping or even navigation without GPS.
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