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

The garrison commenced its countermine immediately, and prosecuted the work for several days.

From Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State by Reuben Gold Thwaites

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

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

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

"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

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

On the other hand, the official police were helped for a time by zealous loyalists, who formed a "Holy Band" for secretly countermining the Nihilist organisation.

From The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) by John Holland Rose

Already in the 12th century the engineers of the defence had made provision for countermining, by building chambers and galleries at the base of the towers and walls.

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

Parallels and approaches were constructed; mines sunk and countermining done.

From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Charles Morris