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

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

Sedition has, at last, countermined itself, and conspiracy we have seen in effect perishing by its own excesses.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

Plainly I read between the lines that our plot had been discovered, that we had been countermined.

From The Iron Heel by Jack London

The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John by Alexander Maclaren

The mine had through treachery of some sort been countermined.

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

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

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

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

Arundel, whilst sentries stationed at various points were charged with the duty of listening for countermining and to act in case of a sudden break-through.

From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett

In May, 1788, a Russian Envoy arrived and began countermining Austria.

From Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle by M. E. (Mary Edith) Durham