Four Avenger-class U.S. Navy minesweepers were removed from the Middle-East in early 2026 after being decommissioned earlier ...

Finding and disposing of mines lurking on the sea floor is dangerous and difficult work. The US Navy wants robotic crawlers capable of descending to nearly 2,000 feet underwater to do this. The ...

Japan and South Korea, United States security allies in Northeast Asia, have recently strengthened their mine warfare capabilities amid China’s growing naval presence. The Chinese Foreign Ministry did ...

General Dynamics is working on MEDUSA, a new unmanned underwater offensive mining system set to be deployed on American ...

The Vlissingen, the second of the series of mine countermeasures vessels (MCM) of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program, first intended for the Royal Netherlands Navy, has commenced sea trials. The ...

The Royal Navy announced that a fully autonomous mine countermeasure will undergo testing with sailors. It is described as one of the most sophisticated towed sonars in the world. Although the Royal ...

Aircraft Carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) made its first port call since departing its Indo-Pacific deployment, arriving in Guam on Friday with two of its escorts. Meanwhile the U.S. Navy and Republic of ...

A major naval operation concluded in the Baltic Sea on Monday, with warships, divers and underwater drone operators detonating unexploded mines left over from the two World Wars - and taking the ...

Gene H.Porter is an independent consultant in matters relating to national security planning and weapon systems development. His current clients include the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), for which ...