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MINE DANGER AREA [2 records]

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Record 1 2025-01-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mine Warfare
CONT

... a nation deploying armed mines in international waters during peacetime must maintain an on-scene presence in the area to ensure that appropriate warning is provided to ships approaching the mine danger area.

OBS

mine danger area; MDA : designations standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre des mines
OBS

zone de danger mines : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mine Warfare
  • Demolition (Military)
  • Minesweeping and Minehunting
DEF

In naval mine warfare, the maximum current that can be supplied to a sweep in a given waveform and pulse cycle which does not produce a danger area with respect to the mines being swept for.

OBS

safe current: term and definition standardized by NATO.

OBS

safe current: term extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Guerre des mines
  • Destruction (Militaire)
  • Dragage et chasse aux mines
DEF

En guerre des mines sur mer, intensité maximum qu'on peut faire passer dans une drague avec une forme d'impulsion et à une cadence données, sans créer d'aire dangereuse du fait des mines que l'on cherche à draguer.

OBS

intensité d'autoprotection : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

OBS

intensité d'autoprotection : terme tiré du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Guerra de minas
  • Destrucción (Militar)
  • Dragado y detección de minas
DEF

En guerra naval de minas, corriente máxima que puede suministrarse a una grada en una onda o impulso para no crear una zona de peligro respecto a las minas que van a ser levantadas.

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