Editing Naval mine (section)

=== Unusual mines ===
Several specialized mines have been developed for other purposes than the common minefield.

==== Bouquet mine ====
The bouquet mine is a single anchor attached to several floating mines. It is designed so that when one mine is swept or detonated, another takes its place. It is a very sensitive construction and lacks reliability.

==== Anti-sweep mine ====
[[File:Ochraniacz pola minowego MuzMarWoj A 23.jpg|thumb|Soviet anti-sweep mine MZ-26 on exposition in Naval Museum, Gdynia, Poland]]
The anti-sweep mine is a very small mine ({{cvt|40|kg|lb}} warhead) with as small a floating device as possible. When the wire of a mine sweep hits the anchor wire of the mine, it drags the anchor wire along with it, pulling the mine down into contact with the sweeping wire. That detonates the mine and cuts the sweeping wire. They are very cheap and usually used in combination with other mines in a minefield to make sweeping more difficult. One type is the Mark 23 used by the United States during World War II.

==== Oscillating mine ====
The mine is hydrostatically controlled to maintain a pre-set depth below the water's surface independently of the rise and fall of the tide.

==== Ascending mine ====
The ascending mine is a floating distance mine that may cut its mooring or in some other way float higher when it detects a target. It lets a single floating mine cover a much larger depth range.

==== Homing mines ====
[[File:Mark 60 CAPTOR-DF-ST-90-11649.JPEG|thumb|A [[CAPTOR mine]] being loaded onto a [[B-52 Stratofortress]] in 1989]]

These are mines containing a moving weapon as a warhead, either a torpedo or a [[rocket (weapon)|rocket]].

====Rocket mine====
A Russian invention, the rocket mine is a bottom distance mine that fires a homing high-speed rocket (not torpedo) upwards towards the target. It is intended to allow a bottom mine to attack surface ships as well as submarines from a greater depth. One type is the [[Te-1 rocket propelled mine]].

====Torpedo mine====
A torpedo mine is a self-propelled variety, able to lie in wait for a target and then pursue it e.g. the [[Mark 60 CAPTOR]]. Generally, torpedo mines incorporate [[embedded computer system|computerised]] acoustic and magnetic fuzes. The [[Mark 24 Mine|U.S. Mark 24 "mine"]], code-named Fido, was actually an [[Anti-submarine warfare|ASW]] [[homing torpedo]]. The mine designation was disinformation to conceal its function.

==== Mobile mine ====
The mine is propelled to its intended position by propulsion equipment such as a torpedo. After reaching its destination, it sinks to the seabed and operates like a standard mine. It differs from the homing mine in that its mobile stage is set before it lies in wait, rather than as part of the attacking phase.

One such design is the Mk 67 [[Submarine Launched Mobile Mines|Submarine Launched Mobile Mine]]<ref>[https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/mk-67.htm MK 67 Submarine-Laid Mobile Mine (SLMM)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014032600/http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/mk-67.htm |date=14 October 2015 }}. Fas.org. Retrieved on 2010-12-02.</ref> (which is based on a [[Mark 37 torpedo]]), capable of traveling as far as {{cvt|10|mi|km|order=flip}} through or into a channel, harbour, shallow water area, and other zones which would normally be inaccessible to craft laying the device. After reaching the target area they sink to the sea bed and act like conventionally laid influence mines.

==== Nuclear mine ====
During the Cold War, a test was conducted with a naval mine fitted with tactical nuclear warheads for the "Baker" shot of [[Operation Crossroads]]. This weapon was experimental and never went into production.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.navalminewarfare.com/ |title=Australian Mine Warfare |first=Cameron |last=Stewart |work=Naval Mine Warfare |date=2011-10-30 |access-date=2011-12-31 |archive-date=7 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110207155953/http://navalminewarfare.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Seabed Arms Control Treaty]] prohibits the placement of nuclear weapons on the seabed beyond a 12-mile coast zone.

==== Daisy-chained mine ====
This comprises two moored, floating contact mines which are tethered together by a length of steel cable or chain. Typically, each mine is situated approximately {{cvt|60|ft|m|order=flip}} away from its neighbor, and each floats a few meters below the surface of the ocean. When the target ship hits the steel cable, the mines on either side are drawn down the side of the ship's hull, exploding on contact. In this manner it is almost impossible for target ships to pass safely between two individually moored mines. Daisy-chained mines are a very simple concept which was used during World War II. The first prototype of the Daisy-chained mine and the first combat use came in Finland, 1939.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Origins of Military Mines: Part II|url=https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/docs/981100-schneck.htm|access-date=2021-08-31|website=man.fas.org|archive-date=31 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831095928/https://man.fas.org/dod-101/sys/land/docs/981100-schneck.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Dummy mine ====
Plastic drums filled with sand or concrete are periodically rolled off the side of ships as real mines are laid in large mine-fields. These inexpensive false targets (designed to be of a similar shape and size as genuine mines) are intended to slow down the process of mine clearance: a mine-hunter is forced to investigate each suspicious sonar contact on the sea bed, whether it is real or not. Often a maker of naval mines will provide both training and dummy versions of their mines.<ref name="MN103-MANTA Sea Mines">{{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716034740/http://www.sei-spa.com/mantaing.html |url=http://www.sei-spa.com/mantaing.html |title=MN103-MANTA Sea Mines |publisher=Sei Spa |archive-date=2011-07-16 |access-date=2011-12-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref>