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Minesweeper J 636 underway in British coastal waters during World War II. A minesweeper is a small warship designed to remove or detonate naval mines. Using various mechanisms intended to counter the threat posed by naval mines, minesweepers keep waterways clear for safe shipping. [1]
A won expert game of KMines, a free and open-source variant of Minesweeper. Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) scattered throughout the board. The objective is to clear the board ...
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.
[73] [74] [75] An entry in the Pet Simulator series, Pet Simulator X sparked controversy among the Roblox community when the developers, Big Games, integrated non-fungible tokens into the game, the first ever instance of such on the platform. [‡ 9] [76] The game has been played over 5 billion times as of January 2023. [77]
Wilton class (1 ship, launched 18 January 1972) open-water minesweeper and minehunter. Prototype ship built in Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) to same hull design as Ton class and forerunner of Hunt and Sandown classes also constructed in GRP. Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel (13 ships, launched 1978—1988) mine countermeasures vessels
A mine countermeasures vessel or MCMV is a type of naval ship designed for the location of and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a minesweeper and minehunter in one hull. [1] The term MCMV is also applied collectively to minehunters and minesweepers.
A minesweeper is a military vessel used to destroy naval mines. Minesweeper may also refer to: Minesweeper, a 1943 American film by William Berke; Minesweeper. Microsoft Minesweeper, the Windows version of the game; Jean-Luc Dehaene or The Minesweeper, Belgian Prime Minister from 1992 to 1999
A US Navy coastal minehunter A minehunting ROV of the German Navy with explosive charges underneath the main body Canadian Navy minehunting ROV. A minehunter is a naval vessel that seeks, detects, and destroys individual naval mines.