Australia makes China tremble: “underwater mines” and porcupine tactics

A few days ago news broke that a submarine was designed to prevent a potential invasion of China. This is the latest weapon launched by Taiwan which introduced the vessel, designed and assembled domestically and costing 1.54 billion dollars. After Taiwan, however, Australia also decided to arm itself to face the threat from the Chinese fleet. Canberra opted for the hedgehog tactic.

Anthony Albanese’s Labor government has decided to acquire more than 5,000 state-of-the-art underwater mines, which will create an explosive wall around 19,600 kilometers of coastline and fourteen main ports. Defense Minister Richard Marles explained: “We must become a fortress and have enough weapons to convince rivals to give up an attack.” These devices, essentially consisting of a container loaded with explosives and equipped with a device capable of causing it to explode on command or contact or at close range, would obviously become Australia’s most powerful means of defense. Although a large part of the project is still known to few, it is understood that the total expenditure should correspond to 600 million euros.

The last time this mine topology was used was in 1991, during Operation Desert Storm carried out by the Iraqis. These underwater devices, cylindrical in shape and approximately two meters long, have electronic systems inside that memorize the noise generated by the targets’ propellers, the magnetic mass of the hulls, the pressure of the water displacement they generate as they pass and others. physical aspects. useful characteristics to establish with certainty the identity of the vessel that has entered its range of action, they are capable of generating a shock wave harmful to any vessel.

Source: IL Tempo

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