I would design water mines with propellers and encrypted tracking.
Move them around when letting someone pass and move them back to where they were. That way if some asshat thought they could just track the previous ship’s route to bypass the mines, they would be in for a surprise.
I would also move them around a bit all the time.
I would also have the coordinates be encrypted in a way that it seemed like it was easy to break. But actually it was a fake out and gave the wrong coordinates to whomever tried to hack it.
Surprise mf-er.
Pentagon would be like. “We so smart. We totally figured out their encryption and we know where all the mines are”.
Because people who think they are hot shit always fall for that kind of thing. Always.
I would also have a lot of fake mines all over. Those would be where the fake-out coordinates said they were.
That would definitely make the Pentagon think they cracked the encryption and also maybe waste a bunch of missiles on trying to shoot them.
If i was interested in passing and i had the funding there would be satellites close to the atmosphere that make high definition pictures of the strait and an algorithm would spot the mines by deviation of pixelcolour.
Why not use remote torpedo’s on the bottom. They could sit idle until called upon, they could be fired by acoustics, all tracking is passive- no transmitted signals, they have actual range and reach as opposed to local contact
Aye, I think people are still imagining sea mines as the old big-ball-with-spikes-anchored-by-a-chain, and haven’t ever looked at how sophisticated minesweeper ships are. Modern mines can determine target ships by electromagnetic profiles, and minesweepers are able to alter their own signature in some pretty wild ways to slip by or get around the mines.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t spiky balls out there in the water, but that’s not the only tool in the kit.
If I was Iran and I had the resources.
I would design water mines with propellers and encrypted tracking.
Move them around when letting someone pass and move them back to where they were. That way if some asshat thought they could just track the previous ship’s route to bypass the mines, they would be in for a surprise.
I would also move them around a bit all the time.
I would also have the coordinates be encrypted in a way that it seemed like it was easy to break. But actually it was a fake out and gave the wrong coordinates to whomever tried to hack it.
Surprise mf-er.
Pentagon would be like. “We so smart. We totally figured out their encryption and we know where all the mines are”.
Because people who think they are hot shit always fall for that kind of thing. Always.
I would also have a lot of fake mines all over. Those would be where the fake-out coordinates said they were.
That would definitely make the Pentagon think they cracked the encryption and also maybe waste a bunch of missiles on trying to shoot them.
Anyway. That would be my strategy.
If i was interested in passing and i had the funding there would be satellites close to the atmosphere that make high definition pictures of the strait and an algorithm would spot the mines by deviation of pixelcolour.
Light does not reflect black from water depths very well. Plus water surface is constantly moving. Creating artifacts on photos.
Satalite wouldn’t have the resolution. Drones might. If it was possible for cameras to photograph things sunk in the water.
There are only a few situations where that’s possible. Still water. super clean water. In the day time.
Why not use remote torpedo’s on the bottom. They could sit idle until called upon, they could be fired by acoustics, all tracking is passive- no transmitted signals, they have actual range and reach as opposed to local contact
This is not a new idea for littoral defense
Aye, I think people are still imagining sea mines as the old big-ball-with-spikes-anchored-by-a-chain, and haven’t ever looked at how sophisticated minesweeper ships are. Modern mines can determine target ships by electromagnetic profiles, and minesweepers are able to alter their own signature in some pretty wild ways to slip by or get around the mines.
That doesn’t mean there aren’t spiky balls out there in the water, but that’s not the only tool in the kit.