Les mines anti navires sont-elles utilies ?

[Jan]

Bien sûr que ça a une utilité! Durant les deux guerres mondiales, c'est l'arme qui a causé le plus de pertes. Et même des mines assez low-tech demandent beaucoup d'efforts pour les neutraliser.

Et comme défense ASW, c'est très efficace.

Je serais un amiral taiwanais, par exemple, j'aurais tapissé le fond du détroit depuis longtemps...

le gros soucis des mines dans des actions qui ne relèvent pas du terrorisme ou du blocus, c'est qu'elles ne font pas de distinction entre les naviers civiles et militaires, donc en "tapissant un détroit", tu interdis la zone à tous les navires, pêcheurs y compris.

PS: une fois n'est pas coutume, j'en profites pour souligner que la lutter contre le smines est une domaine d'excellence où les belges sont reconnus mondiallement, autant en mer qu'à terre. ;)

Jan

[g4lly]

La guerre des mines, le rouquins de l"US Navy

http://www.informationdissemination.net/2011/05/workhorse-of-misrata-port.html

The Workhorse of the Misrata Port

NATO still has a rather large armada of ships in the Mediterranean Sea supporting operations for Libya. This includes aircraft carriers, destroyers, frigates, amphibious ships, submarines, and all varieties of support craft.

Interesting who is making the big difference at the pointy end of the spear.

    Aid ships have begun to enter Misrata after NATO ships cleared mines laid by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.

    Humanitarian relief ship Red Start One has made it in to Misrata port according to The International Organisation for Migration and they are going to start evacuating 1000 civilians.

    Aid ships had been prevented from entering the port after Gaddafi’s forces laid mines.

    Royal Navy Minehunter HMS Brocklesby played a "key role" in clearing them.

Ah yes, Mine Warfare, the red headed step child of every Navy that no one actually cares about come budget time until the guy in the field can't do his job without the little minesweepers. The first vessel to standout as a critical enabler of operations off Libya was USS Florida (SSGN 728). The second vessel to standout as a critical enabler of operations off Libya in my book is HMS Brocklesby (M33).

Check out the photo gallery for the ship to get a sense of the technology being used. In addition to traditional MCM capabilities, it looks like HMS Brocklesby (M33) also deploys the Recce UUV, which is very similar to the REMUS 600 autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV).

Nobody in the United States wants to hear this, but observing several of the littoral activities we have seen from NATO off Libya, from Royal Navy MCM to Italian Navy humanitarian escort, I keep thinking to myself that the Littoral Combat Ship can do all of these missions, and more, very well.

With that said, it is important to note that Libyan anti-access operations focused on sea lines of communication have been very limited to date. How much more aggressive would Gadhafi need to be to scare NATO out to 25nm? I find it interesting that Hezbollah has proven to have more anti-Navy access denial capability from shore than Libya apparently does.

[collectionneur]

Quelques mines déployé par des moyens ''asymétrique'' et c'est toute un armada qui est gênée... Les IED de la mer  >:(

Et la première marine du monde à depuis le retrait des dragueurs construit en masse dans les années 40/50 une énorme faiblesse dans la lutte contre ceux ci.