mine-sweeping

—The defense articles and defense services referred to in subsection (a) are the following: (1) The unfulfilled elements of the request made by Taiwan and approved by President George W. Bush in 2001 that includes diesel electric submarines or relevant designs, Mark-48 ASW torpedoes, Harpoon submarine-launched anti-ship cruise missiles, PAC–3 missile defense systems, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, Apache helicopters, and mine-sweeping helicopters.

Archive 2008-09-01 Michael Turton 2008

In war, they would require Tokyo to open military bases, civilian airfields and hospitals to U.S. forces, conduct mine-sweeping and ship inspections on the high seas and supply frontline U.S. troops.

Smoke Alarm 2008

* We carried HM-14 (a helicopter based mine-sweeping outfit) into the Gulf so that we could search for mines in the paths of tankers.

Summarization of the rest of the Gulf Tanker Joke..um...WAR and more deep_bluze 2005

The service has been trying to find its mine-sweeping drone for a week, now, after the 'bot failed to return to its mother ship, the USS Swift.

Boing Boing: May 2, 2004 - May 8, 2004 Archives 2004

They're also developing government and industrial robots to do unpleasant or dangerous tasks, such as mine-sweeping, hazardous materials sampling, and confined space investigations.

Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

Actually coming up the next hour, we're going to talk to a Navy captain aboard one of those mine-sweeping ships that they're working out there with a number of ships, trying to clear the clogs in the waterways so things can get flowing and all that debris can get out of there.

CNN Transcript Sep 14, 2005 2005

The Get Your War On Book is close enough to shipping that you can pre-order it now -- just a reminder, royalties from the book are go to a mine-sweeping crew in Afghanistan.

Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives 2002

Only yesterday I saw something on television, a report on the mine-sweeping operations.

The Book of Chameleons Jose Eduardo Agualusa 2004

Army, was killed Feb. 3 during a mine-sweeping operation outside Baghdad, the Hopewell Township woman's anger turned toward President Bush.

Archive 2004-09-01 2004

David Rees, the author of the Get Your War On strips has a book coming out, all proceeds donated to a mine-sweeping team in Afghanistan.

Boing Boing: September 15, 2002 - September 21, 2002 Archives 2002