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Superconducting magnets, capable of operating with high current densities in a persistent mode within small overall dimensions, provide a good base for creating a new generation of autonomous, explosion stable, and effective mine countermeasure (MCM) devices. The first maritime and land mine countermeasure devices using superconducting magnets were developed in the Soviet Union during the period between 1976 and 1988. This large scale and long term multi-disciplinary program was tasked to develop new types of MCM devices to provide ships, tanks, and troop carriers with protection against modern mines, which use microprocessors and other elements of artificial intelligence. A joint team with contributors from the USSR Academy of Sciences, Soviet Industry and Navy executed the program. This program was chronologically divided into two parts: MCM Research and MCM Development. MCM Research undertook the creation of high performance superconducting magnets, and the design, manufacture, and land and sea testing of MCM prototypes. MCM Development was tasked with creating a mine sweeping craft towed by a helicopter that used a superconducting magnet, and a self propelled, high speed, radio controlled, sea-going MCM vehicle with a rotating superconducting magnet. It was shown that one rotating magnetic dipole or a combination of dipoles could precisely simulate the typical magnetic signatures of degaussed ships, tanks and troop carriers. The application of high performance, superconducting magnets to mine-sweeping was a break-through m anti-mine defense: it could provide an individual ship with protection, or it could clear mines from channels, shallow water, the surf zone of a beach, or the battlefield.
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Karasik, V.R. et al. (1996). The First Mine Countermeasure Devices with Superconducting Magnets. In: Kittel, P. (eds) Advances in Cryogenic Engineering. A Cryogenic Engineering Conference Publication, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0373-2_135
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