countermine

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

The outstanding lesson of Sevastopol is the value of an active defence; of going out to meet the besieger, with countertrench and countermine.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various

But while Pitt sapped the approaches to the citadel, Loughborough countermined him.

From William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

But I soon perceived that the ambassador had countermined me.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by John Addington Symonds

Israel soon discovered, that though rejoiced to welcome the return of the prodigal son—so some called him—his father still remained inflexibly determined against the match, and still inexplicably countermined his wooing.

From Israel Potter by Herman Melville

I thought to take her by surprise at that very point, and right there she has countermined.

From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

Alas! the influence of one girl upon the actions of another girl may be as "immense" as you please, but wait until it is countermined by some newly appeared, attractive young scoundrel of a man!

From Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune by Mrs. Oliver Onions

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

To fancy that I was instilling all these precepts at the very moment that he was countermining us.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever

Having imparted this discovery to his friend Hatchway, they came to a resolution of countermining the plan of their enemies.

From The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Now, to intercept these plain unsuspecting men was the object of Murphy, whose well-supplied information had discovered to him this plan of the enemy, which he set about countermining.

From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover