Mine Detection?

Kojo62 · 02-16-08, 05:27 PM

Ahoy fellow Skippers. I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on Mine detection and avoidance techniques?

I was on the stock mission in the Strait of Hormuz where you deploy one Seal team, then recover another, and negligently ran into a mine in between the two ops.

I didn't even know there were mines to be found in this strait, and I'd like to find out what I should've done to avoid this fate.

I read in the manual that High Frequency sonar is what should be used to locate mines. But isn't that an active sonar mode? Is there any way to employ this with passive? Pinging away in this region does not strike me as a good choice, given that my orders are to remain undetected. So I'm confused here.

02-16-08, 05:27 PM	#1
Kojo62 Swabbie Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Greater Philadelphia, PA, USA Posts: 11 Downloads: 1 Uploads: 0	Mine Detection? Ahoy fellow Skippers. I was wondering if anyone could give me some tips on Mine detection and avoidance techniques? I was on the stock mission in the Strait of Hormuz where you deploy one Seal team, then recover another, and negligently ran into a mine in between the two ops. I didn't even know there were mines to be found in this strait, and I'd like to find out what I should've done to avoid this fate. I read in the manual that High Frequency sonar is what should be used to locate mines. But isn't that an active sonar mode? Is there any way to employ this with passive? Pinging away in this region does not strike me as a good choice, given that my orders are to remain undetected. So I'm confused here.