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From: GNewsam@itd.dsto.oz.au (G.N. Newsam)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Sweeping pressure mines
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.054132.24719@amd.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 20:16:23 GMT
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From: GNewsam@itd.dsto.oz.au (G.N. Newsam)


> Mark Kinney (kinney@wku.edu) writes:
>>Country X proceded to fill several supertankers with
>>styrofoam and send them into the Red Sea before his fleet. The theory was 
>>that the styrofoam would keep the ship afloat despite mine detonations, 
>>and would clear corridors for the fleet. Possible or not?

I seem to remeber that in WWI the Royal Navy filled some obsolete 
battleships with lumber and tried to use them to blast a way through the 
forts and mines guarding the Dardanelles.  I believe that the forts were 
down to the last few rounds when the attack was finally called off, to be 
restarted later as the Gallipoli campaign.

G.N. Newsam

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