Anytime - Anywhere

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Anytime - Anywhere
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Mining vs.- ND
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Mobile Mine Assembly Group

• 7 Mobile Units 1 Detachment
• Maintain Navy Mine Stocks
• Exercise and Training Mines
• Deployable Mobile Teams
• COMOMAG Staff
• Minefield Planning
• Mine Requirements
• Subject Matter Expertise

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MOMAU MOMAD
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Maritime Mining Cycles

• Military Effect -
  Political View
• American Revolution
• Civil War
• Russo-Japanese War
• WWI
• WWII

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Maritime Mining Cycles

• Military Effect - Political View
• Korea
• Vietnam
• Gulf

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Current U.S. Sea Mine Profile
62 QS
63 QS
65 QS
67 SLMM
56
60 CAPTOR
Shallow
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2010 U.S. Sea Mine Profile
62 QS
63 QS
65 QS
76 I-SLMM ?
LSM? SUBSTRIKE?
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Shallow
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The Problems with Sea Mining

• LACK OF VISIBILITY AND ACCEPTABILITY AS A WARFARE
  OPTION
• NEGATIVE PUBLIC OPINION
• LACK OF MILITARY LEADERSHIPs ENTHUSIASM FOR THE
  MISSION OR THE WEAPON
• LACK OF CONTROL OF THE MINEFIELD
• RULES OF ENGAGEMENT BOTH PERCEVED AND REAL
• FACING THIRD WORLD NAVAL THREATS
• LACK OF AN OWNER COMMUNITY

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Mining Rules of Engagement

• Peacetime
• Own territorial waters
• Perfectly legal under all international laws
• Must provide notification through notice to
  mariners
• High Seas
• Must be an immediate and legitimate
  self-defense/security concern
• Cannot unreasonably interfere with other ocean
  uses
• Scope of mining must be in proportion to the
  threat
• Must provide international notification as to the
  location and duration of field
• Must maintain presence to warn approaching
  vessels
• Must remove mines when no longer threatened
• Other nations waters
• Considered a violation of sovereign territory
• Wartime
• International notification required (may not mine
  for indefinite period of time)
• Must remove mines after hostilities cease
• May channelize but not impede shipping in
  international straits
• Must provide alternate route for neutral shipping
  if mining high seas

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Pillars of a Mining Capability
CAPABLE DELIVERY
MAINTENANCE INFRA- STRUCTURE
CAPABILITY
MINE RD TE
VIABLE MINE STOCKS
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Keys to Acceptance

• Fill a Mission Need
• Not a duplicate capability
• Fleet Driven Input
• Community Ownership
• Command and Control
• Deliverability
• Flexible Targeteering
• Fleet TDA
• Contributes to the CUP and Fires

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Future-cast

• Personnel
• Dedicated MIW Enlisted Rating
• Dedicated Core of Civilian Expertise
• Current Mining Capability
• Quickstrike Upgrade
• Future Capability
• Depends upon us
• Stand-off Delivery / I-SLMM / LSM / RECO ???
• Greater involvement in MCM Training
• Smart training mines and threat targets

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Questions
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