The US Navy wants a robotic crawler to eliminate the most dangerous underwater threat: sea mines

The US Navy wants a robotic crawler to eliminate the most dangerous underwater threat: sea mines

MC1 Charles E. White/US Navy

One of the nastiest threats in naval warfare are mines. Crude, cheap and packed with explosives, bottom mines lurk on the seabed like aquatic IEDs, where they are harder to detect and sweep than floating mines.

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