15 jun 2026
U.S. Navy Looks to Fleet-wide Expeditionary Mine Warfare in Wake of Operation Epic Fury
The U.S Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal Training and Evaluation Unit One (EODTEU1) will evaluate a new form of mine-clearing capability after identifying a series of new requirements in the Indo-Pacific - particularly for the service’s doctrine of distributed maritime operations, according to new documents published by EODTEU1. The mission change comes amid a series of challenges in the Middle East in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iranian military forces dropped mines to prevent commercial ship traffic from entering or exiting the Persian Gulf, but the U.S.
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