minelayer

He suggested the country invest in "better corvettes and high-speed minelayers."

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With countermobility operations a known vulnerable area, many countries are investing heavily in mines, minelayers, and even scatterable-mine delivery systems.

On May 9, 1940, while searching for German minelayers in the North Sea, she was torpedoed with the loss of 27 lives.

Four ice-capable Squadron 2020 vessels are being designed to replace the Finnish Rauma-class fast-attack missile boats and Hameenmaa-class minelayers which will reach the end of their life-cycle by the mid-2020s.

Four ice-capable Squadron 2020 vessels are designed to replace the Finnish Raumaclass fast-attack missile boats and Hameenmaa-class minelayers that will reach the end of their life-cycle by the mid-2020s

It included an aircraft carrier, three cruisers, two fast minelayers and 16 flotilla leaders and destroyers, not to mention a whole host of other vessels for the Royal and Merchant Navies.

(6) While packages for mission sets beyond the baseline of MCM, surface warfare, and antisubmarine warfare (ASW) have been suggested for the littoral combat ship, there is no apparent interest in configuring LCS variants as minelayers. Likewise, in early winter 2014 there is little indication that the results of the 2014 Small Surface Combatant Task Force will include minelaying for a next-generation, "frigate-like," small warship.

The addition of low observable aircraft to the stable of potential standoff minelayers introduces two new capabilities to the mix.

On April 6, she escorted destroyer minelayers as they sailed to implement Operation Wilfred, a plan to prevent the transport of Swedish iron ore from Narvik to Germany.

HMS Loyal escorted minelayers and attacked ships evacuating the defeated Afrika Corps back to mainland Europe and also rescued 183 of the ships company from HMS Lightning when she sank in May 1943.