Yours, not mine
June 11th, 2009 | Foreign navies Historical Mine warfare Science and technology | Posted by Andrew Scutro
U.S. 6th Fleet announced today that a service ship from Sweden’s navy discovered a “mine line” that might be “evidence of a minefield.” The find was made during Baltic Operations 2009 or BALTOPS. It’s not outside the realm, as 100,000 sea mines were laid between Sweden and Lithuania back in in WWI and WWII and of them, 60,000 were never recovered, according to 6th Fleet.
Mines are thought by some naval experts as a serious and underrated threat. That was certainly the case during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, which saw mine damage to the gator-turned-mine-countermeasure ship Tripoli seen here and the cruiser Princeton, here.