First time I see RN buy something useful. Probably someone had the wrong drugs by mistake.
Maybe. But that bit about "electro-acoustic pings than set off mines from a safe distance" seemed to negate the usefulness. If I were planning on mining shipping lanes, I wouldn't be wanking about with tricksy, "digital" mines that can be dealt with so easily, I'd be using good old fashioned magnetic, pressure and contact mines with precisely zero digital content. And I'd be making the casing and mooring rope out of plastic to make detection difficult (or just free float them, for top quality havoc and implausible deniability).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
