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Originally Posted by Bort
That's a smart looking little ship! At least some countries still belive in the importance of minesweeping...unlike my own.  |
The USA as a nice fleet of minehunters...
The USA as 12, well at least it's written in the official site of intermarine:
http://www.rodriquez.it/intermarine/minehunters.php
Some more info from naval-technology.com:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/osprey/
However, considering the size of Italy and the coastline, it's funny to see that they have equal amount of minehunters as the USA. But we need to consider that Italy actually needs it and actively use it. Italy being influential with is Navy around the Mediterranean sea, their support is continuous. Those minesweepers where very active in recent years, like the Kosovo war and elsewhere in the Mediterranean sea.