The MOD sometimes operates with two mechanical minelaying platoons. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
Finally, minelaying was being stopped in the areas which would be affected. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
It is likely that a variety of other missions could take priority over minelaying. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
The navy had been tracking Al Fajr, an Iranian amphibious landing craft fitted for minelaying. From Wordnik.com. [Turmoil and Triumph] Reference
At army level, engineer units specializing in rapid obstacle construction and minelaying form MODs. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 6 Army an Army Group Defensive Operations]
Stumpff had about a dozen coastal and naval cooperation aircraft that could be used as bombers or for minelaying. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Remote minelaying can be useful against columns and areas of enemy concentrations, CPs, firing positions, and other targets. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
It came as a result of the battle on October 17 when a British squadron had sunk four German minelaying destroyers off the Dutch coast. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The route should be the same as a route that would be used in some other naval operation -- for example, minelaying or sweeping, or a naval patrol. From Wordnik.com. [FM 7-85 Chapter 4 Insertion, Extraction, Escape, and Evasion]
Dislocating normal traffic through the fear of her pres - ence (or by minelaying), thus slowing up the regular arrival of food, supplies and raw materials. From Wordnik.com. [Graf Spee]
Four minelaying submarines were sent to lay twenty-two mines each off the Firth of Forth, off Moray Firth, and to the west of Pentland Firth in the Orkneys. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
Scheer chose the fast new minelaying light cruisers Brummer and Bremse, each armed with four 6-inch guns and — more important — possessing a speed of 34 knots. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
Support functions might include elements for route clearing, bridging, ferrying, minelaying, exploiting captured POL resources, and even creating improvised runways. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 4 Army Group Offensive Operations]
The army's final defensive line, which aims to prevent further enemy penetration and create conditions for counterstrikes, may use remote minelaying to reinforce threatened axes. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
Mechanized infantry and tank divisions, corps, armies, and army groups have a finite number of organic delivery systems, some of which the division commander might call on to perform minelaying missions. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
Through the spring, summer, and fall of 1918, minelaying continued and, although the armistice came before the Northern Barrage was complete, over 70,000 mines were laid — 56,571 by the Americans, 13,546 by the British. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
There were technical arguments: some now said that the long approaches to the estuary were vulnerable to enemy minelaying; others declared that the area of deep water upstream above the bridge was insufficient to berth the growing fleet. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The sorely battered capital of Valetta and the Grand Harbour, that destination of a very few, very lucky merchant ships, of the 40-knot plus gauntlet-running minelaying cruisers, of the submarine gasoline tankers, of the immortal 'Ohio'. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Sea]
After outlining the naval tasks involved — mine-sweeping and minelaying, assembly of shipping, action against interference from the enemy fleet, direct and indirect protection for the transports — Fricke spoke of 'long preparations '. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Fricke had begun by pointing out that strategic surprise would be difficult to achieve, since the enemy, observing assembly, minelaying, air attacks, and other preliminary measures, would be aware of the approximate area and time of landing. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Instructions to start moving the mines to the Channel area had been issued on 19 July; but a certain amount of reorganization of mine stocks in the Channel ports was still being carried out at this time owing to a change in the minelaying plan. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
Head seas were battering his ships, and the minelaying light cruiser Kolberg, lagging behind the battle cruisers, had been badly damaged; her bridge and superstructure had been almost completely swept away by the heavy waves into which she was plunging. From Wordnik.com. [Castles of Steel]
The Germans waged a minelaying campaign off the east coast of the United States between. From Wordnik.com. [StrategyPage.com] Reference
Dolphins are highly intelligent, and captive dolphins have been trained to perform complex acts at aquariums, and to carry out military minelaying and guard duties. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]]
If I wanted to act covertly so as to bring the UK to its commercial knees I might try minelaying, using apparently innocent merchant ships to do the dirty, as they would be able to enter major ports. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
Shortly after 2100 hours, raids commencing down Channel from the Boulogne/Calais area turned north, north of Cherbourg towards Portland and Land's End, minelaying being suspected, and some crossing the coast. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
4 A mobile obstacle detachment is an enfineer grouping with rapid minelaying and usually also antitank ditching and obstacle-creating capabilities. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 4 Army Group Offensive Operations]
The methods and extent of minelaying depend on. From Wordnik.com. [FM 100-61 Chptr 12 Engineer Support]
Group West's plan for minelaying operations, 31. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Sea Lion]
A minelaying bracket. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Past Through Tomorrow]
minelaying operations of, 194–99, 264. From Wordnik.com. [Whirlwind] Reference
Kamikaze losses by, 158, 160, 292n minelaying operations of, 194–99. From Wordnik.com. [Whirlwind] Reference
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