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MINEHUNTER [5 records]

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Record 1 2025-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Minesweeping and Minehunting
DEF

A type of naval ship designed for the location and destruction of naval mines which combines the role of a minesweeper and minehunter in one hull.

OBS

mine countermeasures vessel; MCMV: designations standardized by NATO.

Key term(s)
  • mine counter-measures vessel

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Dragage et chasse aux mines
OBS

bâtiment de lutte contre les mines : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

OBS

bâtiment de lutte contre les mines; bâtiment antimines; BAM : désignations uniformisées par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

Key term(s)
  • bâtiment anti-mines

Spanish

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Record 2 2025-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Minesweeping and Minehunting
DEF

... a type of naval vessel that searches for, seeks out and destroys individual mines that are placed by the Navy.

OBS

minehunter; MH : designations standardized by NATO.

OBS

minehunter : designation extracted from the "Disarmament and Peace Keeping" glossary with the permission of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Key term(s)
  • mine hunter

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Dragage et chasse aux mines
OBS

Un chasseur de mines est un navire de guerre des mines qui utilise un sonar pour détecter les mines et détruit des mines individuelles [...]

OBS

chasseur de mines : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN et uniformisée par le Comité de normalisation de la terminologie navale.

OBS

chasseur de mines : désignation tirée du lexique «Désarmement et Maintien de la Paix» avec l'autorisation de l'Office des Nations Unies à Genève.

Spanish

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Record 3 2023-02-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Minesweeping and Minehunting
DEF

[A ship that is] designed to find, classify and destroy moored and bottom mines from vital waterways.

OBS

Coastal minehunters are generally smaller and with lower sea-keeping and endurance than oceangoing minehunters. They are usually tasked with keeping fixed high-value choke points clear of mines, such as the approaches to military ports and harbours.

OBS

minehunter, coastal; MHC : designations standardized by NATO.

Key term(s)
  • coastal mine hunter
  • mine hunter, coastal

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Dragage et chasse aux mines
OBS

chasseur de mines côtier : désignation normalisée par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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Record 4 2002-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Minesweeping and Minehunting
  • Demolition (Military)
OBS

The transit of a sweeper-sweep combination or of a minehunter operating its equipment through a lap. This term may also be applied to a transit of any formation of sweepers.

OBS

run: term and definition standardized by NATO.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dragage et chasse aux mines
  • Destruction (Militaire)
OBS

Parcours d'un bande par une combinaison dragueur-drague ou un chasseur de mines en opération. Terme pouvant aussi s'appliquer à un parcours effectué par une formation de dragueurs.

OBS

passage : terme et définition normalisés par l'OTAN.

Spanish

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

Paso de un conjunto de dragaminas o detectores de minas a lo largo de una zona determinada. También se usa el término para designar el paso de una formación de dragaminas.

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Record 5 1996-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Types of Ships and Boats
  • Propulsion of Water-Craft
  • Sea Operations (Military)
  • Combat Systems (Naval Forces)
CONT

Kvaernel Mandal, working on experience with the larger Oks0y-class minehunter, has already built a twelve-metre third-scale prototype in fibre composites designed to Det Norske Veritas rules for high speed patrol boats.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Types de bateaux
  • Propulsion des bateaux
  • Opérations en mer (Militaire)
  • Systèmes de combat (Forces navales)
CONT

Bénéficiant de l'expérience acquise avec les chasseurs de mines de la classe Oks0y, Kvaernel Mandal a déjà construit un prototype à l'échelle 1/3 (12 mètres) en composite qui satisfait aux normes Det Norske Veritas pour les patrouilleurs très rapides.

Spanish

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