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21ST CENTURY ASW: Navy Plans Hammerhead Mines To Box In Chinese, Russian Subs. ?The Navy is inching ?

By Stephen Green

21ST CENTURY ASW: Navy Plans Hammerhead Mines To Box In Chinese, Russian Subs. “The Navy is inching closer to fielding a new anti-submarine mine designed to deploy from underwater drones and loiter for weeks at a time around critical chokepoints, looking for enemy submarines to sink.”

China’s naval problem is that their best ports are all behind strategic chokepoints, a problem “Hammerhead” would compound.

Of course, that all changes if Beijing were to take Taiwan.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 21, 2020 (boomark / email).