What's Inside Naval Mines?

This video is part of a documentary about naval mines produced by Concerning Reality. Watch the full film here:    • How do Naval Mines Work? | Unclassifi...  

Naval mines have been used for centuries to protect countries coastlines and defend from attackers. While you might think of naval mine technology as one of war's past, these underwater devices are still crucial aspects of the modern naval battlefield.

In order to understand this often forgotten aspect of modern warfare, let's take a look at what the modern naval mine is made up of.

Modern Naval mines are both fairly simple but also incredibly complex devices. Their simplicity is due to their overall lack of components and their complexity is a result of the high intelligence programmed into them. Modern mines also have a variety of safety features that old mines never had, like the ability to be easily stored or stockpiled and the ability to self-destruct or self-sterilize to keep wildlife and water safe after the mines are no longer needed.

Naval mines usually contain flight gear or handling gear, an explosive case, an arming device with an explosive train, a target detecting device, and a battery.

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FOOTAGE COURTESY OF:

Q13 NEWS
U.S. NAVY
PARTYSHOUTS
CNE-CNA/C6F
ISLE OF WIGHT RADIO
U.S. NATIONAL ARCHIVES
JAMIESON FILM COMPANY
IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES OF CANADA
CANADIAN WAR MUSEUM

INFORMATION SOURCES:

NAVAL ACADEMIES PRESS
POPULAR SCIENCE
NEW YORK TIMES
OCEANOGRAPHY AND MINE WARFARE
MINE WARFARE INTRODUCTION: THE THREAT

Information Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine
https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/s...
https://www.nap.edu/read/10176/chapter/5
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/30/ma...
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_di...
https://books.google.com/books?id=fAf...
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/docs...

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