Posted on Aug 10, 2019
Iran has hundreds of naval mines, but U.S. Navy minesweepers can't find them
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He’d seen his ship, one of the Navy’s fleet of 11 minesweepers, sidelined by repairs and maintenance for more than 20 months. Once the ship, based in Japan, returned to action, its crew was only able to conduct its most essential training — how to identify and defuse underwater mines — for fewer than 10 days the entire next year. During those training missions, the officer said, the crew found it hard to trust the ship’s faulty navigation system: It ran on Windows 2000.
Iran has hundreds of naval mines, but U.S. Navy minesweepers can't find them
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Persian/Arabian Gulf
Weapons
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Current day mines are nothing like the horned steel spheres chained to the bottom as seen in the movies. Naval mines shaped like cylinders can be easily camouflaged and embedded. They can be set to rise based on certain signatures unique to each ship. They can be remotely controlled to swim and settle and wait for scheduled activation. Today’s mines will (not “could”) render a combatant ship incapable of functioning...think jet engine powered generators which power propulsion or are geared to the shafts.
There is an old saying known to surface ship warriors—-every ship can be a minesweeper—once.
We didn’t clear Haiphong Harbor all by ourselves... the North knew where the mines were and wanted them up as well.
There is an old saying known to surface ship warriors—-every ship can be a minesweeper—once.
We didn’t clear Haiphong Harbor all by ourselves... the North knew where the mines were and wanted them up as well.
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