An innocent looking Iraqi tugboat and barge

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An innocent looking Iraqi tugboat and barge
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However, when you remove the tarps
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and look under the cut-away drums, you find
Floating Contact Mines
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ready to deploy.
Note wheels and rails
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Meanwhile, back inside the container
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a trap door, leading to the inside of the barge
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and more contact mines ready to deploy...
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along with bottom-moored influence mines.
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Which proves the old adage that any ship can be
a mine layer,
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And any ship can be a mine hunter once.
USS Tripoli damaged by floating contact mine
during Desert Storm
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Mining not just a threat to the Navy!
4th Infantry Division enroute to Iraq