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The development of a Danish Mine Disposal Charge was first thought of when the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) was seeking a charge for the mine disposal vehicles deployed from its Flyvefisken class Standard Flex 300 multi-role patrol boats. After having carried out extensive market research, it became evident that no existing charge was able to meet all of the safety-, technical- and operational demands put forward by the Danish Navy Ordnance Safety Board and the RDN:

• Fulfilment of all relevant NATO safety requirements for explosives.
• No removal of safety features should take place before the ROV releases the mine disposal charge.
• The mine disposal charge should not be greater than necessary to dispose of the mine.
• The mine disposal charge should be optimized for operation in waters with changing levels of temperature and salinity, e.g. the Baltic.
• Last, but not least, the mine disposal charge should be inexpensive.

Consequently, the Danish Naval Materiel Command and NORDIC DEFENCE INDUSTRIES set out to develop a charge which would fulfil all of these requirements.

Extensive tests and trials were carried out to investigate with what accuracy it was actually possible to place such a charge in relation to the mine, and it was proved that if the height above the sea bed and the strength of the water current were known, it would be possible to predict the impact point of DAMDIC on the sea bed. Based on this knowledge, the highly sophisticated, NATO-certified, Danish Mine Disposal Charge and the software integrated into the ROV's TV sub-system were developed.