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booger2005 · 04-23-06, 07:46 AM

Forgive me if this has been mentioned. Do you know how many mines the British layed in their East Coast minefield barrage thats now in NYGM?

I did a little math on the East Coast minefield in NYGM.

I estimate there to be the equivalent of 620 minefield circles of 5 KM radius. The density all minefields is 10 units/ KM^2 So

Area of all circles * 10 =

620*(5^2 * pi)*10 = 486,700 mines.

There are approxamately half a million mines in the NYGM East Coast mine barrage. Is that historical? It seems like a bit much to me. :hmm:
How much time was spent after the war clearing all of those mines?

Edit

Ok, found something on this:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...997/Morris.htm

They estimate the total number of naval mines used in WWII by both sides in all theaters to be 700,000. So the NYGM East Coast minefield (would represent 5/7 of all mines used in WWII) may be too numerous, but only slightly. It was a large field, but the US had a sizable mining effort in the Pacific too...

04-23-06, 07:46 AM	#524
booger2005 Engineer Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Akron Ohio Posts: 204 Downloads: 11 Uploads: 0	Forgive me if this has been mentioned. Do you know how many mines the British layed in their East Coast minefield barrage thats now in NYGM? I did a little math on the East Coast minefield in NYGM. I estimate there to be the equivalent of 620 minefield circles of 5 KM radius. The density all minefields is 10 units/ KM^2 So Area of all circles * 10 = 620(5^2 pi)*10 = 486,700 mines. There are approxamately half a million mines in the NYGM East Coast mine barrage. Is that historical? It seems like a bit much to me. :hmm: How much time was spent after the war clearing all of those mines? Edit Ok, found something on this: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...997/Morris.htm They estimate the total number of naval mines used in WWII by both sides in all theaters to be 700,000. So the NYGM East Coast minefield (would represent 5/7 of all mines used in WWII) may be too numerous, but only slightly. It was a large field, but the US had a sizable mining effort in the Pacific too...