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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;springfld.arsenal, post: 361058, member: 54&quot;]Was on USS Preble (DLG 15).&nbsp; You can be sure the culprits were mines, specifically Mark ?? Destructors.&nbsp; They are regular low-drag aircraft bombs fitted with noses that have the sensors inside to make the device into an anti-ship mine.&nbsp; Any airplane that can carry the bombs can carry the destructors.&nbsp; That’s what i recall anyway.&nbsp; On snother ship in ‘74 or so we worked with CH-53 helos to sweep the mines in Haiphong Harbor as required by the treaty.&nbsp; The helos towed MOP’s (magnetic orange pipes) to set off any mines that had failed to self-sanitize as desiged.&nbsp; The helos weren&#039;t designed as tractors so a number broke and went down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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