A book cover featuring a painting of fishing boats at sea with mines chained to the seabed below. It is titled Swept Channels by Taffrail.

Coming from a fishing town, a great many man served during the Great War in the RNR and RNVR on minesweeping and patrol work.

This is apparently among the best accounts on this work.
It’s now at the top of the reading pile.

#ww1 #greatwar #milhist #milbooks #fww #seamines #warbooks

Hormuz freedom of navigation: Trump broke it so US should fix it#DonaldTrump #navalescorts #Opinion #Seamines #StraitofHormuz #USSouthKoreaalliance

Aaaghirahbesettinsemoynestehstrattehhorumz. #SeaMines #Hormuz

US goes after Iran's ability to lay sea mines, build drones, top general says U.S. military operations targeting sea mines come amid growing concerns about Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.

With the war against #Iran in its second week, the U.S. military’s focus now includes destroying factories that build one-way attack #drones and preventing the Iranian military from using #seamines, said Air Force Gen. #DanCaine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Photo of abandoned sea mines. Formerly Soviet. Now in Estonia.

Not all sea mines look like this, but some do - freely shared on Unsplash.
#Mines #SeaMines
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Sea monster chased in Reanimal #reanimal #reanimalgamplay #youtubeshorts #youtube #gamer #horrorgame #horror #creepy #seamonster #eye #seamines #ewww #chased #running

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea The sea drone was allegedly waiting to ambush a ship of the Russian Shadow Oil fleet.

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea

defensemirror.com/news/40655/U...

#BlackSea #Romania #UkraineWar #SeaDrone #SeaBaby #USV #unmanned #MaritimeSecurity #NATO #Constanta #NavalForces #SeaMines #GlobalShipping

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea The sea drone was allegedly waiting to ambush a ship of the Russian Shadow Oil fleet.

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea

defensemirror.com/news/40655/U...

#BlackSea #Romania #UkraineWar #SeaDrone #SeaBaby #USV #unmanned #MaritimeSecurity #NATO #Constanta #NavalForces #SeaMines #GlobalShipping

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea The sea drone was allegedly waiting to ambush a ship of the Russian Shadow Oil fleet.

Ukraine’s Ally Romania Destroys ‘Sea Baby’ Drone in the Black Sea

defensemirror.com/news/40655/U...

#BlackSea #Romania #UkraineWar #SeaDrone #SeaBaby #USV #unmanned #MaritimeSecurity #NATO #Constanta #NavalForces #SeaMines #GlobalShipping

Finland leder samarbete kring sjöminor Finland ska leda en gemensam anskaffning av en finländsktillverkad bottenmina till flera länder.

Finland leder samarbete kring sjöminor | Utrikes | Svenska Yle #turpo #säkpol #seamines
https://yle.fi/a/7-10086236?origin=rss

20 #Israeli vessels have surrounded the #lead boats of the #Flotilla. #SeaMines have also been deployed. Comms on all vessels are currently extant, but that won't be the case for much longer.

🇩🇰 #Denmark #Greenland
#NATO #SeaMines #USpol
#DonaldTrump #Trump #Defence

Ekspert: Nye danske søminer skal især bruges til to ting Forsvaret køber flere hundrede søminer, der skal sikre Danmarks evne til at kontrollere og blokere adgangen til danske farvande.

4/4
Oh, and by the way—money’s already moving this weekend.
Denmark is buying new sea mines to boost coastal defence and protect key maritime areas.
Don’t mess with Danish waters (In 10 years time or so…)
#SeaMines #DanishNavy #DefenceSpending

www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...

Putin’s latest war crimes risk all-out war with Nato Is this really the time to be shutting down one of the best minehunter forces in the world?

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09...

A much neglected area of defence spending in the west, especially now, concerning the #BlackSea

Russia lays hundreds of #SeaMines of all kinds. heedless of victimsor Conventions. How should affected NATO countries respond when their vessels blow up?