Talk:Controlled mines

Controlled mines are covered only incidentally within discussion of naval mines with some additions in seacoast defense articles. This mine weapon is entirely different in placement (planted in exact locations rather than "laid" in generalized fields), required maintenance of the firing system and were intended to be manually fired when target vessels were observed to be within the mine's effective range. The entire subject is now historical as the coastal fortifications with the mine batteries and the fleet of vessels were obsolete by the early days of WW II and largely inactive by war's end. Coverage of all that within naval mine articles would detract from that still current subject. In the U.S. a specialized fleet of U.S. Army vessels was designed and built for that purpose. My main interest is in the larger ships of that fleet and those within the larger context of Army ships in general. I have only casual research and interest in the mines, supporting systems and fortifications themselves. Details on the technology, administration and operation of the mines are available (I have many) and I urge someone with more coastal defense interest to flesh out those aspects.

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