Plushiest billets for Navy men are on two coastal minelayers, formerly Mrs. Hiram Edward Manville’s Hi-Esmaro and Engineer-Manufacturer Edward Andrew Deeds’s Lotosland. Hi-Esmaro (sold for $ ...

EADaily, . Over the course of 20 hours, a radical change in Pogrebsky direction of the Kursk front. The amphibious assault ...

MOSCOW, January 20. /TASS/. Russian Airborne Troops will receive the newest Klesch minelayer, built on the Taifun-VDV chassis, Airborne Troops engineer service commander Colonel Ilya Shatin told ...

Mine warfare ships include both minelayers and minesweepers (or mine countermeasures ships). The mission of mine countermeasure ships is to clear areas of enemy mines so that friendly ships may have ...

Meanwhile, their operators are based about three miles away. Mr Stupak praised the minelayers, adding: ‘This means out soldiers will not have to risk being shot by Russian snipers to lay mines.

We should not forget the IRGC’s naval presence, which consists mainly of fast patrol craft and minelayers which could seek to interdict military and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

In the field, he said, he and his team have encountered complex schemes where the minelayers intended to trap and maim or kill the de-mining crews, which are out in it working primarily on foot ...