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hese words ring particu- impression isn’t mistaken (cheap and ef- ? uence sensors, sophisticated activation larly true when consider- fective contact mines can still be found algorithms, and counter-countermea- ing the future of minelay- in the inventories of navies worldwide, sure capabilities.

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T but potentially decisive the Russo-Ukraine War), it fails to cap- air, surface, or undersea military assets, element of naval warfare. As global at- ture the gravity of the modern sea mine but in an era of rapidly growing mari- tention focuses on hypersonic missiles, threat, now characterized by multi-in- time domain awareness and expanding armed quadcopters, loitering munitions, and attack USVs, it could be mines, minelaying, and mine countermeasures (MCM) that ultimately shape the course of future wars.

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