Mine Countermeasures off Misrata
Mines can be incredibly effective weapons, not only can they destroy shipping they can deny large areas of sea to all traffic, choke off ports,
August 9, 2021
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Offensive Mining
In all our recent discussions and posts on mine countermeasures I have completely ignored the subject of offensive mining but the recent BALTOPS exercise included
July 14, 2015
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Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER
Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER is a multi national search and EOD exercise hosted by Canada on the west coast. Held annually, Exercise ARDENT DEFENDER improves participants’
July 10, 2015
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Adventures in Commonality
What is commonality? An interesting question in its own right, the dictionary definition is The state of sharing features or attributes. In a defence context,
May 28, 2015
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Whatever Happened to MHPC?
Royal Navy Maritime Hydrographic and Patrol Capability Programme update
February 4, 2015
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Unmanned Mine Countermeasures Update
The Royal Navy released a news piece this week about ongoing trials of unmanned mine countermeasures systems. The evolving development of such sophisticated unmanned underwater
April 19, 2014
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Naval Mine Countermeasures
A diversion from the shabby goings on elsewhere. The sea mine is the IED of the maritime environment, cheap, easy to deploy and with a
October 16, 2011
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Counter Port Denial in Misrata
Whilst the blogging world has been wetting its pants over Osama and that mystery stealth helicopter there has been some interesting activity in the waters
May 5, 2011
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