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Minelayer
Military vehicle built for process of deploying explosive mines / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A minelayer is any warship, submarine, military aircraft or land vehicle deploying explosive mines. Since World War I the term "minelayer" refers specifically to a naval ship used for deploying naval mines.[1] "Mine planting" was the term for installing controlled mines at predetermined positions in connection with coastal fortifications or harbor approaches that would be detonated by shore control when a ship was fixed as being within the mine's effective range.[2][3]
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An army's special-purpose combat engineering vehicles used to lay landmines are sometimes called "minelayers".