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7/13/2025, 6:24:33 PM
>>63978517
You know we have more than 130 of these things in service, right?
The only purpose-built US mines are from the late 1960s, and while they're technically listed as in-service, I doubt they would ever seriously be used, everything more modern is just torpedos, or air dropped bombs that have been slightly modified for use as a naval mine.
And again, for actual mine laying while plenty of ships CAN do it, almost none of them are actually setup to do that job today. You mention burkes being "technically" minelaying, but naval mines AREN'T a regular part of their armmaments, so while you could specifically loadup a burke to do the job, you couldn't call up a deployed burke today and have them start laying mines within the hour, they just don't have the mines on board.
You know we have more than 130 of these things in service, right?
The only purpose-built US mines are from the late 1960s, and while they're technically listed as in-service, I doubt they would ever seriously be used, everything more modern is just torpedos, or air dropped bombs that have been slightly modified for use as a naval mine.
And again, for actual mine laying while plenty of ships CAN do it, almost none of them are actually setup to do that job today. You mention burkes being "technically" minelaying, but naval mines AREN'T a regular part of their armmaments, so while you could specifically loadup a burke to do the job, you couldn't call up a deployed burke today and have them start laying mines within the hour, they just don't have the mines on board.
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