Minesweepers in Iraq? King Fahd was very surprised that Iraq had only a few Soviet-made Yevgenia-class minesweepers and Yugoslavia-made Salam-al-Deen-class inshore minesweepers, and even if they could carry out minesweeping activities, their usefulness was very limited, and it was difficult to imagine the time it would take to clear mines in such a large area of water. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Are you sure that Qusay said they could get rid of those mines quickly?" King Fahd said.

The secretary thought for a moment and said, "Your Excellency Qusay only mentioned that a route can be quickly cleared, but he did not say that those mines can be quickly cleared. ”

Isn't that the same? Prince Sultan thought, but then, he figured it out: this is different, he didn't say to clear all the mines laid by the Iranians, just to clear the shipping lanes?

Now the minesweepers are scanning the entire Strait of Hormuz in a wide formation, which will take a long time, but if they only clear a route along the median line, it will be much faster.

However, even then, it will take a few days, and how quickly does Cusai say that he can clear the route quickly.

They didn't know that Kusai, racking his brains, finally came up with a peculiar method.

The Iranians mainly lay anchor mines, this kind of anchor mines, are tied to the bottom of the water with a mine, because they cannot be seen outside the water, so it is easy to touch the underwater mine, and let this anchor mine show its original shape, it is also very simple, that is, to cut the mine!

In fact, this method, which has been used for a long time, is a single-ship towing and cutting minesweeper. This is a cutting tool in which 16 cutters are divided equally into the stern of the ship by two sweeping cables, and then dragged by the minesweeper to cut the anchor anchor cable. When the sweep line advances with the ship, if the cutter meets the anchor cable, the mine rope is cut due to the power of the ship, so that the mine body rises to the surface, and then the mine is destroyed by water blasting methods such as artillery.

However, now the Saudis' mine-sweeping operations do not use this method, but use sonar to look for a needle in a haystack in the water, look for suspicious targets, and then confirm them, because the anchor mines are scattered and will not be arranged very centrally, so if you are unlucky, you may drive a boat for a day and will not cut a single mine. And even worse luck was that those steamers, within a few nautical miles, struck a mine.

But, at the very least, it can be confirmed that those places are safe!

Therefore, Qusay's method is to let these old minesweepers with cutters line up and open the way forward, then, at least a few hundred meters wide, they can be safe, this is a safe channel!

If you are unlucky and don't cut the mines, then forget it, and if you do, then the two missile boats that follow these minesweepers will use their own guns to blast off the anchor mines that have surfaced.

Qusay's divergent thinking shines here, originally the minesweeper repeatedly searched all the sea areas to ensure that they were safe, this is a very huge project, and Qusay only needs to make sure that there are no mines on the route, as for other places, leave it for later! If the Iranians themselves accidentally dropped the mines on their doorstep, they would have deserved it even more.

However, new problems will arise again, how to let the cargo ships behind follow this channel? Now there is no precise GPS navigation equipment that allows cargo ships to visually navigate the trajectory of the minesweeper in front? That's simply impossible. Because it is not a cargo ship, there are dozens of cargo ships behind it, and if it deviates slightly, there will still be a danger of hitting mines.

One of the clever ideas that Qusay came up with was actually a homegrown method: artificially carve out a shipping path for landmarks!

The water in the Strait of Hormuz is very shallow, with an average of only 70 meters, so as long as you are in the middle of the channel, you can drop something that can be calibrated, this thing, which is somewhat similar to the anchor mine, is heavier below, and falls directly to the bottom of the sea, and the difference is that the anchor mine is not exposed, and this calibrated thing, let it just come out of the water, you can guide the course for the ships coming and going!

As long as the boat follows this beacon that floats on the water, there will be absolutely no problem!

Fortunately, now Iraq's industry has begun to rise, when Qusay said his idea, the secretary immediately went to Zubayer to find workers to process a batch of these beacons overnight, the bottom is an iron block, the bottom is pointed, can be pierced into the bottom of the Persian Gulf, and the top is a large piece of foam with an outer layer of plastic packaging, and the middle string is made of materials that are not afraid of flooding.

The missile boats were followed by two vessels dedicated to dropping such beacons.

The only thing to pay attention to is to pay attention to the length of the string when putting it in, if it is too long, it will drift with the current, which will bring wrong channel information to the cargo ship behind.

However, it is still imperfect to consider it in this way, because who can guarantee that Iran will only put ordinary anchor mines into the sea, and if there are such things as advanced acoustic mines, magnetic mines, and water-pressure mines, those minesweepers that are just driving minesweepers frantically cutting the ropes will face great danger.

So, for insurance, at the front of this minesweeping force, there are also two remote-controlled boats that are specially "sent to death".

In order to avoid being attacked by magnetic mines, the minesweeping ships are all made of non-magnetic materials, and these two remote-controlled ships that are specially sent to death are to enhance their magnetism, not only to enhance the magnetism, but also to increase the sound and increase the water pressure passing through the voyage.

In other words, similar to Khomeini's young soldiers, they are going to step on mines.

These two ships are remodeled from old speedboats of about 100 tons, and the cabins below the waterline at the bottom of the hull are separated, and they are filled with styrofoam, so that when the hull enters the minefield and detonates the mine, even if the shock wave and shrench generated by the mine explosion penetrate the hull and cause perforation, because the styrofoam filled in the hull can provide buoyancy to ensure that the body is not sinkable, so it can still continue to carry out the task of stepping on the mine.

In order to ensure safety, the two ships are operated by remote control, and they are equipped with devices that can extend the signals of magnetic sound and water pressure forward, so that those mines can explode as early as possible.

Once the devices were fully completed, an experiment was carried out on the sea off the Faw Peninsula. (To be continued.) )