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tolsdorff -> RE: Type 3 IJN mine (3/30/2021 8:36:59 AM)
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Googled some more today about actual aerial mining. I find the topic quite interesting.
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ORIGINAL: Leandros
Nothing wrong with denial weapons..[;)]..And I should think fre-fall mines, like the mk.13, are somewhat more accurate than those with parachute-descend.
It is not a bad thing if the mine dropping is discovered, creates a lot of extra work, enemy combat units are delayed or leave the port they would to like to rest in. Besides, minesweepers are known to have blown up during sweeping.
Fred
Besides operation starvation, there are some other examples of aerial mining used in the denial role as well:
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...On August 10, 1944, B-29s of the 462nd Bomb Group thundered down the Moesi River only 500
feet above the water, strafed Japanese ships and unleashed a cargo of mines. The "Hellbirds," on the
longest mission of the war--4,000 miles and almost nineteen hours--sank three ships, damaged two more
and closed the approach to the refinery at Palembang, Sumatra for a month...
From this study. First time I heard of a B-29 strafing mission.
More from the same source :
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...TBFs of Carrier Task Force 58 made the first American carrier-based minelaying at Palau on
March 30-31. 1944. They trapped thirty-two ships inside the atoll by mining its passages, allowing
aircraft to sink twenty-three with bombs and torpedoes and damage the rest. That action, and additional
mining, led the Japanese to abandon Palau as a base...
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...Elsewhere, at General Claire Chennault/s insistence, Fourteenth Air Force aircraft laid mines
along the Yangtze River between October 1944 and May 1945. The effect was to block Japanese
steamers from supplying troops fighting inland. The results so pleased Chennault that he remarked, "The
aerial mine has done more to stop the Japanese drive north from Canton than any other weapon."...
It seems, apparently contrary to how it is modelled in the game, that the aerial mine was a rather succesful weapon during the war.
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