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Originally only known as the second batch of Type 081, it was revealed that this new minesweeper was designated as Type 081A, [2] and it is a development of earlier Type 081. Type 081A is designed by the 708th Institute. A total of five have entered service with PLAN by mid-2014. Specification: [3]
Mine warfare consists of: minelaying, the deployment of explosive naval mines at sea to sink enemy ships or to prevent their access to particular areas; minesweeping, the removal or detonation of naval mines; and degaussing, the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field in a ship's hull to prevent its detection by magnetic mines.
Stern view of HMS Brocklesby off Bahrain in 2021. The Hunt class is a class of thirteen mine countermeasure vessels of the Royal Navy.As built, they combined the separate roles of the traditional minesweeper and that of the active minehunter in one hull, but later modifications saw the removal of mine-sweeping equipment.
See Admirable-class minesweeper. List of Admirable class ships. USS ...
Minesweeping is the practice of removing explosive naval mines, usually by a specially designed ship called a minesweeper using various measures to either capture or detonate the mines, but sometimes also with an aircraft made for that purpose.
Mined-Out was an early Minesweeper-style game and preceded the popular 1990 Windows inclusion Microsoft Minesweeper by several years. The two share important similarities such as a grid layout and a display showing the number of adjacent mines.
Abraham Crijnssen was the third [1] [2] of eight Jan van Amstel-class minesweepers constructed for the RNN during the late 1930s. [3] [4] Built by Werf Gusto at their yard in Schiedam, South Holland, the minesweeper was launched on 22 September 1936, and commissioned into the RNN on 26 May 1937. [4]
USS Rhea (AMS-52/YMS-299) was a YMS-1-class minesweeper of the YMS-135 subclass acquired by the U.S. Navy for the task of removing mines that had been placed in the water to prevent ships from passing.