Navy Invests in New Mine Warfare Technology (UPDATED)
4/6/2020
By Yasmin Tadjdeh
Sea-based mines are a constant concern in naval warfare. Like their land-based counterparts, they offer adversaries a low-cost means of inflicting potentially catastrophic damage. To counter that, the Navy is developing several new countermeasure platforms.
One of the top global mine threats comes from China, said Seth Cropsey, director of the Center for American Seapower at the Hudson Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. It has been estimated that Beijing has as many as 100,000 such weapons.
Those “range from the old-fashioned moored contact mines … to include mines that have rocket-propelled weapons and target detection systems,†he said.
https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2020/4/6/navy-invests-in-new-mine-warfare-technology
