A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Similar to anti-personnel and other...

designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear...

Singer was a naval mine made and deployed by the Confederacy during the American Civil War. It was a manually laid moored contact mine. During the American...

Submarine Launched Mobile Mines (SLMM) are a modern type of naval mine designed to be deployed by submarines. The chief example is the Mark 67 SLMM, currently...

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The Naval Mine 2000 (Finnish: Merimiina 2000) is an advanced naval mine developed by Patria for the Finnish Navy. It has stealth and advanced target-recognition...

proponent of the metric system. In 1853 Jacobi developed the Jacobi naval mine. The mine was tied to the sea bottom by an anchor, a cable connected it to...

A limpet mine is a type of naval mine attached to a target by magnets. It is so named because of its superficial similarity to the shape of the limpet...

A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the location of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a...

under Commander, Navy Region Southwest. Naval Base Point Loma consists of seven facilities: Submarine Base, Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command (previously...

submunitions, which often act as mines Land mine, explosive mines placed under or on the ground Naval mine, or sea mine, a mine at sea, either floating or on...

A parachute mine is a naval mine dropped from an aircraft by parachute. They were mostly used in the Second World War by the Luftwaffe and initially by...

deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines. "Mine planting" was the...

The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) scattered throughout the board. The objective...

deep-water anti-submarine naval mine. It uses a Mark 46 torpedo contained in an aluminum shell that is anchored to the ocean floor. The mine can be placed by either...

ships and boats as well as the weapons used by British naval forces such as torpedoes and naval mines. BL 14-inch Mk VII BL 15-inch Mk I BL 16-inch Mk I BL...

eventually developed as the largest naval installation in the world. The Navy acquired the property to establish the Navy Mine Depot, Yorktown at this site....

minehunter is a naval vessel that seeks, detects, and destroys individual naval mines. Minesweepers, on the other hand, clear mined areas as a whole...

The Mark XVII naval contact mine, triggered through contact with a ship, was the standard British contact naval mine during World War II. The Mark XVII...

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device the mines will explode, sending pieces of iron flying in all directions and shooting up flames towards the sky. For the use of naval mines, he wrote...

including: 2 capital ships 1 carrier 12 cruisers 55 destroyers 7 submarines Mines caused the loss of 54 warships, including: 2 cruisers 26 destroyers 26 submarines...

Characteristics of U.S. Naval Mines United States Submarine Losses in World War II, Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Washington:...

the torpedo and the naval mine, and later attack aircraft and the guided missile.[better source needed] The growing range of naval engagements led to the...

including: Naval mine Warfare Test Station (NMWTS), Mine Warfare Experimental Station, and Naval Dispensary for the Training Base. The site of the Naval Amphibious...

of ASW. Common weapons for attacking submarines include torpedoes and naval mines, which can both be launched from an array of air, surface, and underwater...

without the need for air bases on land. Aircraft may be used to conduct naval mine clearance, the aircraft tows a sled through the water but is itself at...

radars for air and missile defense Navy radar and sonar Torpedoes and naval mine countermeasures Key RMS capabilities include: Missiles and precision-guided...

vehicles to detect and destroy naval mines at a standoff distance. In the early 1980s, the U.S. Navy began development of a new mine countermeasures (MCM) force...

M-4) is a naval mine developed by Fengxi Machinery Factory (汾西机器厂) and was accepted into active service in 1974. It was the first moored mine in the Chinese...