countermine
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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
Navy’s countermine capabilities as it retires traditional minesweepers.
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
He ordered the men to make a countermine, and in all the lower rooms they were to place brass basins.
From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder
But while Pitt sapped the approaches to the citadel, Loughborough countermined him.
From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose
Perhaps she fancied she had countermined her opponents, and so felt secure.
From The Star-Chamber, Volume 1 An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
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
We mined the organization of the Iron Heel with our secret agents, and the Iron Heel countermined with its secret agents inside its own organization.
From The Iron Heel by Jack London
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
She would have considerable pleasure in countermining Mr. and Mrs. Tappitt.
From Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope
The art of countermining, and of counteracting the danger of mines exploding, was then very imperfectly understood, though that of besieging above ground had been brought to the very highest degree of perfection.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison
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