Relax wrote:Should be 2 types of mines; offensive(stealthy mines), defensive very obvious mines for your own WHJ
As for minesweeper... Uh, EVERY SINGLE warship is a minesweeper with their wedges + PDLC's with active RADAR/LIDAR.
NIT... a Big Graser mine could outrange PDLC's. So, take them out with LAC Grasers... finding them = the usual.
Obviously with mines, it is a question of Quantity overwhelming.
If you know roughly where the minefield is I'd think nukes in "boom" mode would be more effective that PDLCs or energy mounts. They're going to be spread enough that they're unlikely to be prox killing their neighbors - but at least with nukes you don't need to be dead on and landing a big nuke between a few mines might take out more than one.
Wedge + PDLCs seems like a bad idea because minefields are wide enough that you're likely to eventually end up surrounded by mines. Sure the ones below your interposed wedge can't do anything to you - but your ship is a hell of a lot more obvious to the mines than they are to your ship. So betting your sensors and PDLCs against their stealth, as you drift down into the field and likely end up with mines on multiple sides of you, is likely to be a losing game.
OTOH you could use something like recon drones to sweep the suspected area with wedges. Anti-ship mines aren't likely to "waste" themselves trying to blow up an RD - so you could be able to run over a bunch of them. And if it does get blown up it's not the worlds biggest loss. (You could probably rig up an autopilot or remote control to run uncrewed shuttled or pinnaces through the suspected field; but RD are already set up for remote control and you probably carry more RDs than small craft. )