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mobile mine

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In naval mine warfare, a mine designed to be propelled to its proposed laying position by propulsion equipment like a torpedo. It sinks at the end of its run and then operates like a mine. See also mine.


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But just as its war against Angolan-backed forces in SWA obliged South Africa to hone its demining skills, so too the war which led to the establishment of Zimbabwe encouraged the development of mobile mine detection systems.
From it came the Navy's postwar mines: the Mark 50 series, CAPTOR, the submarine-launched mobile mine, and the Destructor series.
Whichever propulsion method is eventually chosen, the mobile mines will also require rudimentary intelligence and the ability to communicate with each other.
 
 
 
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