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

In that way the lonely hermit put his foot down and began a countermine, working as silently as possible.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by J. Macfarlane

"Wait here an hour for me," he whispered; "I must see who liberates him, and whether he is really as innocent as he reads, or we have been countermined by the devil's own tutor."

From Hard Cash by Charles Reade

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

From The Cavalier by George Washington Cable

For it was clear, was it not, that her mines must be countermined for her own sake and that of her belongings?

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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

They countermined the assailants, and, encountering them in the subterraneous passages, drove them back, and demolished the frame-work of the galleries.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 2 by William Hickling Prescott

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

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

The Apothecary is perpetually employed in countermining the Cook and the Vintner.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Joseph Addison

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