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Although with a certain phase shift, the further development of underwater explosives to combat surface vessels and submarines proceeded congruently with the perfection of their defence measures. The principle became established that the use of sea mines and sea mine defence were mutually dependent. In the decades that followed, various means of sea mine defence were developed: trailed mechanical clearing devices for cutting anchor mines, trailed electrodes and sound generators designed to respond to the sensors of bottom mines and, finally, sonar systems that enable the detection of dangerous objects in the water column and on the seabed. In the case of sonar-based mine hunting, the mines are destroyed with the help of underwater drones, usually wire-guided, or by mine divers. A special feature...