Minesweeper
A minesweeper is a warship which uses a dredger, device mechanical, acoustic or magnetic, towed in a zone likely to be mined, and intended:
- to shear the buoyropes of the mines with buoyropes to make them go back to surface and destroy them
- or to explode mines with magnetic influence and/or acoustics by influencing their setting of fire.
Contrary to the Hunter of mines, the dredger does not detect the mines.
The operations of dredging are particularly dangerous. The dredgers are thus built consequently:
- magnetic immunization: timber construction, use of bronze and aluminum, loops of immunization;
- reduction of the acoustic signature;
- good impact resistance of the underwater explosions.
Nevertheless, the dredgers are vulnerable, this is why were developed systems of dredging by helicopters or by drones remote-controlled since a building bases. The development of electronic of the settings of fire of the mines made the mine sweeping less effective. Thus, dredging can it give only one certain probability of cleaning of a dredged channel. This is why in the majority of the navy of war, the minesweeper is abandoned with the profit of the Chasseur of mines.
Related articles
- Mine marinades
- Guerre of the mines
- Warship of the mines
- Chasseur of mines
- Minelayer
Minesweepers in the world
External bonds
- hunters of mines Site of the National marine
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