cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 3 months agoHow do the mines in Hormuz Strait work?message-squaremessage-square2fedilinkarrow-up17file-text
arrow-up17message-squareHow do the mines in Hormuz Strait work?cheese_greater@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.ca · 3 months agomessage-square2fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOtherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-23 months agoI was thinking they were kind of like huge buoys floating in the water but as it turns out there are many different types of naval mines, TIL! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine#Types No idea how accurate this is but if this website is correct it sounds like Iran primarily has moored mines, bottom mines, and torpedo mines https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html
I was thinking they were kind of like huge buoys floating in the water but as it turns out there are many different types of naval mines, TIL!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_mine#Types
No idea how accurate this is but if this website is correct it sounds like Iran primarily has moored mines, bottom mines, and torpedo mines
https://www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html