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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.
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.
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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.
Hunt-class minesweeper, Aberdare group (87 ships, launched 1917—1919) Admiralty twin-screw coastal minesweeping sloops; Dance-class minesweeper (14 ships, launched 1917–1919) tunnel-screw coastal minesweeping sloops; Racecourse-class minesweeper (32 ships in 2 sub-classes, launched 1916—1918) paddlewheel coastal minesweeping sloops
Magnetic sweeping, with a towed device producing a magnetic field to trigger magnetic mines. To protect the minesweeper itself against magnetic mines, the hull and superstructure of the ship are made of wood. Other components are made of non-magnetic materials, and any magnetic materials are strictly controlled.
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