Ships have struck drifting mines in the last two years as Ukraine struggled to clear shipping routes. But even after the war, it's not clear how long it'll take to clear the waters. Against all odds, ...

One of the nastiest threats in naval warfare are mines. Crude, cheap and packed with explosives, bottom mines lurk on the seabed like aquatic IEDs, where they are harder to detect and sweep than ...

Sea mines, or naval mines as some call them, are self-contained bombs placed into the water to destroy or disable both submarines and surface ships. Like antipersonnel or anti-tank mines, they're ...

The U.S. Navy defines a sea (naval) mine as "a self-contained explosive device placed in water deemed to destroy surface ships or submarines." These mines have played a role in U.S. naval history and ...

A suspected Russian sea mine with a 480kg payload has washed up on the shore of a Turkish holiday resort. The device was spotted at Agva, about three-and-a-half hours drive from the capital Istanbul.

Despite the advancements made in the fields of offensive and defensive weapons in recent years, the good-old mines remain a constant presence on the battlefields of the world, be them on land or at ...

December 14, 2024: European defense manufacturer Thales has an autonomous mine clearing system. The French Navy will be the first to use this system and, if it works, other NATO nations will probably ...

The Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 delivered a grim lesson in the brutal effectiveness of counter-mobility operations. Advancing Ukrainian forces found themselves in vast Russian minefields in ...

HM-12 flew the MH-53E Sea Dragon 160633 “Dragon 437” to Titusville’s Warbird Museum. Its the first of its kind to be displayed in a museum. On Oct. 16, 2024, Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron ...

Finding and disposing of mines lurking on the sea floor is dangerous and difficult work. The US Navy wants robotic crawlers capable of descending to nearly 2,000 feet underwater to do this. The ...