The U.S. Navy decommissioned its only four minesweepers in the Middle East last year, but still maintains other countermine ...

Iran has been accused of littering the Strait of Hormuz with mines as the key oil route becomes a battleground in its war ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Russian oil tanker Eagle S anchores outside the Port of Kilpilahti (Photo is for illustrative purposes) (Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty ...

As a 48-hour deadline looms, Iran has retaliated against President Trump's threat to "obliterate" its power plants. Tehran warns that energy facilities in countries hosting US bases are now "lawful ...

US intelligence reports indicate that Iran has started deploying a small number of naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, a crucial passageway for global oil transportation ...

May 24, 2025: Russia, long an enthusiastic user of naval mines, is now on the receiving end of such devices. Since late 2024 a growing number of Russian ships in the Black and Baltic Seas have been ...

Cheap, simple naval mines could threaten the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow waterway through which about one-fifth of the world’s ...

US Navy could deploy Avenger-class and LCS mine packages to address potential Iranian mines in Hormuz; helicopters and drones ...

Limpet mines, which appear to be the cause of damage to at least one tanker attacked in Gulf of Oman last week, are classic maritime weapons dating back to World War II. Like sea limpets -- the ...

A major naval operation concluded in the Baltic Sea on Monday, with warships, divers and underwater drone operators detonating unexploded mines left over from the two World Wars - and taking the ...

Iran is in possession of an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 naval mines, a report from the US Congress published last year shows. The report, which was published in the wake of a 12-day conflict between Iran ...