One thing about weapons/military freaks that annoy me is that:
1. they don't really know much
2. have no experience
3. they think they know and may run amok
1 & 2 apllies to you, schwenk, so let me call you a military freak for this one. lol
Except for Seikai and Star Trek, I'm not into anything else, but I still do have greater general knowledge than even fans of whatever do....so I'm a monster. LOL
Of course I meant artillery grenades above.
Btw Jutland was WWI.
Basic training does include handling of grenades, but not launchers or making traps or anything with mines. My knowledge here is a bit less than a spetznat so no warranties.
Modern information have been classified since 9/11 but all you need is play CoD4.
Usually everyone carries some grenades, certain people carry special ones. The launchers of course carry ones for their launcher.
The so called effective deacly mines you saw were multiwarhead ones. They separate right at the weapons range. Which means just when you shoot at it, it has become a spray of mines...no escape.
As we have seen, the mines have gravity sensors, some kind of radar and energy/heat sensor. We know from Lafiel's comment, that they have some intelligence in predicting a course, but failed in COTS II. At least that's what she knows from Abh mines and applied it to UMK.
Gravity waves can't be masked.
Radar can be missled by random or specific EM, however, antimatter&fusion explosions cause lot's of EM. They still work as we see. So this doesn't work.
Infrared can be missled by (surprise) infrared. lol Among all the explosions and flashes.. no problem. So this doesn't work.
Intelligence, well there are nobel prize worthy people who will never get any credit because this is what they do...secret stuff. Hit chance aside there are ways to predict and plot a course to hit a target even after a failed first intercetion point. Even if it's not a physical hit the proximity fuse and resulting fragments can do quite some damage.
Actually, it's the invention of the VT that brought victory to the allies in WWII.
Those guys were smart!
With logistic you meant mining the routes and escort warfare?
Today I saw some new about a frenship arresting pirates. The thing was it was a small ship that trigered my interest. At first I saw it was a Floreal class ship which made me think "wait that's the flower class from WWII" ...well, my surprise and amusement lasted until I read about its actual recent history.
Anyway, as an object can only survive in planespace with a spatial generator and fuel, mine won't last long. And mining systems is useless since you have to conquer it first or abandon it.
Raids still work.