contact mine

"They're probably contact mines and we'd have to hit them with some kind of a projectile."

A bottom contact mine is the simplest form of mine.

These cost many times more than contact mines.

Usually only created by contact mines, direct damage is a hole blown in the ship.

The Tripoli is thought to have hit a contact mine, and was left with a gaping hole beneath her water line.

The center throat of the channel will be mined with acoustic and contact mines.

Currently, 19 floating contact mines have been found.

They were considered superior to contact mines because they did not put friendly shipping at risk.

Twenty-two contact mines were discovered and cut from their undersea moorings.

I felt tingles shooting up and down my body as every inch of her body contacted mine.

"Contact mines," Sisko said, pushing himself to his feet.

She was damaged by contact mines on several occasions while supporting the invasion of Italy, but was repaired.

The engine was stopped, and the propeller was cleared of the "buoy", which turned out to be a contact mine.

"Growing evidence indicates that Iran now has influence mines as well as vintage contact mines."

Made or Purchased by Iraq Iraq made most of its contact mines.

Contact mines usually hole ships' hulls.

This comprises two moored, floating contact mines which are tethered together by a length of steel cable or chain.

Two sets of rails ran along the pressure hull inside this structure, capable of accommodating 100 standard Type B contact mines.

The LUGM-145 was an Iraqi produced naval moored contact mine.

The contact mines carry 400 to 1,500 pounds of explosive, while the influence mines are smaller, with warheads up to 500 pounds.

Ryan had made sure that the three buggies were locked and that small contact mines were placed and primed.

This time it was Teller mines, contact mines, fragment mines, and a canister of Parathion.

Their shallow draft gave them some protection against pressure and contact mines, and allowed them to navigate in shallow inshore waters.

On 10 September, however, she struck a moored contact mine in the Rade d'Hyères.

The Hanzhou was immediately reloaded with forty PLT-3 contact mines, plainly visible, as her original cargo had been the previous evening.