How do the mines in Hormuz Strait work?
from cheese_greater@lemmy.world to nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca on 18 Mar 00:46
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Arent mines usually buried, are these floating or just sub-floating buoy-type mines?

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Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 01:25 next collapse

More like a drone than a spikey ball.

Otherbarry@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz on 18 Mar 01:59 collapse

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!

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

www.hisutton.com/Iranian-Naval-Mines.html