countermine

Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

A U.S. defense official said the military was using a combination of manned and unmanned capabilities in the countermine operation, but declined to comment on operational specifics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

Extremely few flag officers ever served as countermine officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 10, 2026

Called the AQS-24, the technology merges sonar with laser mine scanning and human command and control to sustain high-resolution countermine sensing and identification at speeds as fast as 18-knots.

From Fox News ● Feb. 28, 2020

This countermine consisted of an iron cylinder, containing 300 pounds of powder, and was electrically connected with the Nettle.

From In the Track of the Troops by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

But the king, who was not to be easily deceived, had countermined all Wallenstein's designs.

From Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

But he had to deal with a shrewd opponent; and while he took his measures for a combined attack from the besieged and the relieving army, Ferdinand intercepted his messages and countermined his plans.

From The Moors in Spain by Stanley Lane-Poole

I fear, Mr. Editor, the grand conspiracy is in danger of being countermined and counteracted, by those all-pervading and indefatigable Yankees.

From Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

The morning came, the long desired sun arose, and all his plots were countermined, all his hopes of immediate action paralyzed, if not utterly destroyed.

From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

They mined and countermined, until the whole area had been honeycombed.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

And many a U.S. diplomat, busily countermining the British, worries more about them than he does about the Russians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Whilst they played wits against me—against me who commanded nations, and intrigued for them, and fought for them, hundreds of years before they were born—I was countermining them.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

No explosion took place, however, and after our countermining work was completed, the garrison became reassured and remained in the fort at night as well as in day time.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 by Various

The last few weeks were further enlivened by the knowledge that the Austrians were countermining against us.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

He commenced his dastardly countermining of his partner's advice by complimenting Payson on being a man whose words, manner and appearance proclaimed him to the world a true sport and a regular fellow.

From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train