Thales unit wins $53.9 million US Navy contract

Nov 2 (Reuters) - French defence group Thales said on Monday its subsidiary Advanced Acoustic Concepts, a US-based provider of undersea warfare solutions, has won a $53.9 million US Navy contract for two remote mine-hunting modules and engineering support.

Options for additional modules could raise the total contract value to about $196.2 million. The modules let sailors detect, locate and classify undersea mines remotely from stand-off distances, the company said.

(Reporting by Hugo Lhomedet, editing by Milla Nissi-Prussak)