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  • Marthirial@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    22 天前

    Iran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it needs to keep it full of mines as long as Israel doesn’t respect the ceasefire.

  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    161·
    21 天前

    that’s what happens with mines and it’s why they’re not fucking legal at all. you need a bunch of giant rats to help comb the land and they still blow farmers arms off 30 years later. imagine if they were fucking underwater

  • jaxxed@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    21 天前

    Not a problem as Trump already said that he removed all of the mines and sunk all of the mine layers.

  • daannii@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    22 天前

    If I was Iran and I had the resources.

    I would design water mines with propellers and encrypted tracking.

    Move them around when letting someone pass and move them back to where they were. That way if some asshat thought they could just track the previous ship’s route to bypass the mines, they would be in for a surprise.

    I would also move them around a bit all the time.

    I would also have the coordinates be encrypted in a way that it seemed like it was easy to break. But actually it was a fake out and gave the wrong coordinates to whomever tried to hack it.

    Surprise mf-er.

    Pentagon would be like. “We so smart. We totally figured out their encryption and we know where all the mines are”.

    Because people who think they are hot shit always fall for that kind of thing. Always.

    I would also have a lot of fake mines all over. Those would be where the fake-out coordinates said they were.

    That would definitely make the Pentagon think they cracked the encryption and also maybe waste a bunch of missiles on trying to shoot them.

    Anyway. That would be my strategy.

    • Typotyper@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      21 天前

      Why not use remote torpedo’s on the bottom. They could sit idle until called upon, they could be fired by acoustics, all tracking is passive- no transmitted signals, they have actual range and reach as opposed to local contact

    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      21 天前

      Consider:

      You want to play a prank on your friend. She’s about to give a tremendously important piano recital in front of a tremendous crowd. It’s a big deal, but unfortunately, you are an asshole and “It’s just a prank, bro.” You put a woopie-cushion filled with gravy under the seat of maybe a third of the chairs in the auditorium. But these aren’t ordinary woopie-cushions. You replaced the actual seat cushions, disguising them so seamlessly that the only way to find them is to sit down on them. These folding chairs get stacked and put away, and you congratulate yourself, knowing that you did a good job. No one will ever find all the woopie cushions.

      Your friend hears about your prank, and in outrage, she cancels the performance and moves it to a venue that doesn’t have landmines. But you have no idea where you planted the landmines anymore. You can take a wild guess, but the point was for them to be an undetectable explosive hazard. And undetectable they remain. A year later, the gravy has rotted and congealed. The few woopie cushions that do go off release a toxic biohazard that gets people seriously sick when they detonate.

      You’ve made this music venue completely uninhabitable. They have to close for years to clear the toxic sludge out of every corner of the chair storage area. It’s long and expensive. Ten years later, someone finds a woopie cushion that they missed, and ends up in the hospital with a lung infection.

      TL;DR. This would be like planting a woopie cushion under a bunch of folding chairs at a giant music venue. Mines are very hard to find and dangerous to everyone, it’s why they shouldn’t be used.