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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by nradov on Thursday January 01, 2026 @09:10PM (#46460601)
Put mines where? How do you prevent neutral vessels from hitting them? What happens when they inevitably break loose in a storm and drift away? Naval mines are quite effective for closing down a body of water in an unrestricted hot war but we haven't reached that stage yet. EU and NATO countries still want to be able to use the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland for their own purposes.

You haven't really thought this plan through.

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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by dzhiurgis on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:49PM (#46461213)
Smart mines. There are thousands of them deployed already.
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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by nradov on Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:24PM (#46461388)
Huh? What are you even talking about? Which models specifically? And how sure are you that they can reliably discriminate between Russian vessels versus others that look and sound identical?

You haven't really thought this plan through.

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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by lostlogin on Thursday January 01, 2026 @11:56PM (#46461560)
> And how sure are you that they can reliably discriminate between Russian vessels versus others that look and sound identical?

Based on recent events, even people struggle to tell what is Russian and what isn’t.

These smart mines might solve that?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/us/politics/russia-oil-ta...

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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by nradov on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:53PM (#46468053)
No, smart mines won't solve that. I can't fathom where this fantasy is coming from. It's totally disconnected from the reality of current mine technology.
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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by dzhiurgis on Saturday January 03, 2026 @02:41PM (#46480700)
This is deployed in baltic already

https://www.rheinmetall.com/Rheinmetall%20Group/brochure-dow...

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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by nradov on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:01PM (#46505637)
What's your point? Those weapons don't have the ability to reliably distinguish Russian shadow fleet vessels from others.
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