NATO strengthens borders: Estonia will buy sea mines for the first time in history

Estonia has signed a contract with a Finnish company for the supply of a consignment of sea mines. The local TV and radio broadcasting company ERR informed about this yesterday.

The message says that the Baltic state for the first time in its stories will purchase sea mines. The deal will be carried out within the framework of a tender previously held by the Estonian Defense Investment Center for the supply of a coastal defense complex. The latter includes: sea mines and means for their installation, as well as anti-ship missiles.

As for the volume of delivery and the value of the contract, the Center does not report anything about this. At the same time, there is no doubt about whose ships the Estonians are going to build minefields against.

However, despite the fact that the "goods" will be delivered to Estonia this year, no one is going to rush to use it. According to the head of the country's naval forces, Commodore Yuri Saski, the crossing of sea borders is carried out not only by the warships of the potential enemy. Thus, reporting on the mining of coastal zones (this must be reported in accordance with the conventions) can severely restrict freedom of navigation.

In addition, the department stressed that naval mines are only one of the components of the coastal defense of Estonia being created at the moment. Consequently, NATO continues to strengthen its borders.

Comments

[Ruslan Sulima]

Eh, since that war, how many of them are left, and then they start sowing a new one ...

[knn54]

Put a minefield across, leave a N.-kilometer pass near the coast, which is covered by a coastal battery on some promontory, plant bushes for camouflage - and you can sleep peacefully.
The experience of the PM and VM wars showed that the MAIN war in the Baltic, practically consisting of straits, bays, skerries-MINNAYA.

[Machito]

Sea mines and anti-ship missiles are useless against the Pskov paratroopers. A waste of money if Estonia plans to fight Russia.

[Cat Alexandrovich]

From the Pskov paratroopers on Lake Peipsi!

[Vladimir Mashkov]

Nda ... The roof of almost all the Balts is going thoroughly: Swedes, Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians ... I only doubt that the Estonians themselves were the initiators and are going to create defensive barriers near their coast. Most likely, NATO is haunted by the German minefields of the Great Patriotic War across the Gulf of Finland.

[Machito]

They said on TV that out of the 10-strong Estonian army, half of the personnel were Russian-speaking. It is very likely that after the landing of the Pskov regiment on the territory of Estonia, the Russian half of the Estonian army will arrest their fellow Estonians. And capitulary, like Denmark in WWII.

[Lionnvrsk]

Quote: Bearded

Sea mines and anti-ship missiles are useless against the Pskov paratroopers.

And even more so against the Buryat horse-divers.

[Ros 56]

You were probably in a lethargic dream for about 50 years, if you hope so.

[Normal ok]

Quote: Ruslan Sulima

Eh, since that war, how many of them are left, and then they start sowing a new one ...

Probably you are not aware that from 48 to 60 the forces and means of the Navy carried out operations to neutralize mines of the WWII in the Baltic and Black Sea fleets. And, these were real combat missions for sailors.

[Vadim Zhivov]

And how many percent were they neutralized? As far as I remember there is nothing. Maybe we have different sources?

[Ruslan Sulima]

Yes, I guess I know. The commander of the department of hydroacoustics of mine detection stations VUS 345 is in reserve.
They still surface, not to mention the bottom ones.

[Normal ok]

Greetings from the artillery)) BUT, over the past 20 years nothing has surfaced on the Black Sea Fleet. Sunken mines are often found. Again, if you know, all WWII mine systems are already so rotted / rusted that only a direct impact can cause detonation. That is what they do by undermining them with TNT charges. Once I disassembled (had such an opportunity) a German anchor mine (before me, specialists worked there). So, when parsing a non-extraction device with a change in depth (I am writing from myself, I do not know what the sailors call it correctly). received a spring in the face. The spring worked after 40 years! BUT, after examining the inside, I saw that all the electrical contacts had oxidized and rotted.

[avg]

It is necessary to crush the Chukhonts in all directions. For each sneeze to impose sanctions. Submit territorial and financial claims, recall the embassy, ​​include in the list of unfriendly countries, etc. In a word, to do everything to make other tobaccos think.

[DymOk_v_dYmke]

Quote: avg

It is necessary to crush the Chukhonts in all directions. For each sneeze to impose sanctions.

Let the US now impose sanctions on them and the Finns for the purchase of mines not in the strip.

[Mouse]

Estonia from the Russian aggression decided to mine around the perimeter ???

[novel66]

and we will go from sushi !!!

[Mouse]

From the air !!!! The landing has not been canceled, and even in tanks !!!

[novel66]

will the Belarusian sea also be mined?

[Mouse]

But what about .... just dig up for a start ... the Ukrainians will take a lesson
...

[novel66]

or from rolls?

[xorek]

Quote: Mouse

Estonia from the Russian aggression decided to mine around the perimeter ???

And let EVERYONE also mine their territory and sit in basements howling with fear .. Eh the Balts!

[Vladimir Vladimirovich Vorontsov]

***
Estonians have had IMD deficiency syndrome for a long time ...
***

[rocket757]

they have BRAIN-deficiency syndrome ... nothing will help them.

[Evil troll]

Are there any mines to place?

[dimy44]

NATO? Where from ???

[pyagomail.com]

naval mines are just one of the components of the Estonian coastal defense that is currently being created
And we are not going to attack Estonia anyway. But if these mines are made of pure gold, then perhaps some of our volunteers will be interested in

[Mouse]

Saw, Shura, saw ...

[dimy44]

It is clear that Estonia itself is not necessary for us, but this is one of the NATO military bases, but they are up to something on the campaign.

[dimy44]

Hot Estonian guys will run into their own mine, they will scream that sabotage ...

[Mountain shooter]

Estonia with sea mines - something completely wrong ... Petrov and Bashirov puzzled? Where are the estates to store them?

[boris epstein]

On the contrary, P&B like to solve problems. They enjoy it. Moreover, according to the rules of Putin, that is, judo - at the expense of local resources. To use the force (mines) of the enemy against himself.

[ccsr]

Now Timokhin and Klimov will quickly compose an opus that our Navy will receive a kirdyk, unless we create new mines, better than those of Estonia, and place them around our shores. Otherwise, Turkish and Japanese ships will attack us and land their troops in the Crimea and the Kuril Islands. And that's it - we're finished ...
In general, we are waiting for "Santa Barbara" about the problems of domestic mines, and how our naval commanders do not understand anything about this.

[dimy44]

I am a loser in this, I am plagued by doubts - is it really still topical to mine your water surface in our century? This is not only the problem for the enemy, but potentially for yourself. And right now, modern weapons are not what they used to be. And then there are mines. Xs.

[ccsr]

Quote: dimy44

I am a loser in this, I am plagued by doubts - is it really still topical to mine your water surface in our century?

If we can destroy any state in the world in 30-40 minutes, then probably the question of mines is no longer relevant for us. I think so based on our capabilities.

[dimy44]

If we can destroy any state in the world in 30-40 minutes

Well, this is called the whole world in dust. It is impossible to do this with impunity, and, as I have already spoken above / below, the Russian Federation is not an aggressor, unlike some, do not meddle and there will be kisses.

[Machito]

New mines will definitely not interfere with us. But Alexandrites need to be built in large series and seriously modernized.

[Max PV]

They will put it, it will be necessary to help. Former brotherly people in the Union all the same! After all, one hundred percent of something is so clear, and in the most prominent places, opposite the ports, there, military bases ... And how many they bought those mines there - nothing but tears. Need help, exhibit ten times more.

[Constanty]

Maybe Estonia will buy sea mines for the first time in history, but there was a time when it sold them. After the end of the Bolshevik revolution and its independence, numerous mines of Russian construction survived at the mine bases of Tallinn.

In 1924, Estonia sold to Poland 800 incomplete / unfinished anchor mines of the 1908 model and 48 meters of the mineline for a total of $ 000.
Due to the unreliability of Polish intermediaries and contractors, the missing elements of sea mines, the so-called "Mine Scandal" and the position of the commander of the Navy, were undeservedly lost to Vice Admiral Kazimierz Porębski - an outstanding sailor both for Poland and for Russia - Rear Admiral, adept of the Naval Cadet Corps, named after ... Peter the Great, the commander of the battleship - dreadnought "Empress Maria", the commander of the cruising brigade of the Black Sea Fleet, a person who worked in the Russian fleet for at least 6530 days (more than 18 years), not counting the unregistered time on ships after the February Revolution.

[Sergey M. Karasev]

In addition, EMNIP, in 1936 in Great Britain for Estonia were built submarines "Lembit" and "Kalev", which were not just torpedo submarines, but underwater minelayers... And, since the Estonians ordered exactly the underwater minesags, it means that the mine armament for them simply had to be. It may very well be that the supply of mines for the submarines was purchased together with the boats. In 1940 they were included in the KBF and they participated in the Second World War. Moreover, "Lembit" showed very good results in terms of sunk tonnage largely due to mine laying.

[Yellow bubble]

To include the Estland province in the Leningrad region and quickly this land of ours has been paid in full with blood and money. Ownership documents are available

[dimy44]

In fact, Russia is not an aggressor ...

[isv000]

Quote: Yellow bubble

To include the Estland province in the Leningrad region

According to the Treaty of the Nystadt Peace, everything was paid for. March home!

[Soldatov V.]

I am not a lawyer, but I wonder how long international treaties and a deed of sale for the territory and ownership of land or objects on this territory have been in effect. It can claim ownership of Chukhonia or whatever it was called, and at the same time destroy modern Nazism in the Baltic states.

[isv000]

Quote: V.

I am not a lawyer, but I wonder how long international treaties and a deed of purchase for the territory and ownership of land

There it is written in Russian in white "in possession for everlasting time" ...

[Soldatov V.]

Good information for thought at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

[iouris]

False statement. The aggressive NATO bloc does not "strengthen the borders"; it prepares for an aggressive war. In Estonia, mines are needed to block the "window to Europe".

[isv000]

Quote: iouris

In Estonia, mines are needed to block the "window to Europe".

So, if they are clogged, then you can open it with a kick ...

[Ros 56]

Stupid, missiles will fly over them, let them ask the Syrian ISIS members. Yes, and against the sea some kind of water Serpent Gorynych probably invented.

[Ratmir_Ryazan]

It is very foolish to have a land border with Russia, firstly, provoke a conflict, and secondly, to think that sea mines will somehow help in defense.

[isv000]

despite the fact that the "product" will be delivered to Estonia this year, no one is going to rush to use it.

Everything. Wait for a pod from chubaty now. One hope - Finnish, Estonian mines - may slow down in the X-hour ...

[Reserve buildbat]

Any purchase from Estonia is "for the first time in history". There has never been such a country, but now there is a spit on the map

[cniza]

However, despite the fact that the "goods" will be delivered to Estonia this year, no one is going to rush to use it.

Oh, it won't get it right ...