Finnish defense company FORCIT unveiled its FLOUNDER anti-invasion sea mine at the Combined Naval Event (CNE) 2024 in Farnborough, UK, held from May 21-23, 2024.

Australia has received and began training with it's first "Smart Sea Mines" according to Air Vice Marshall Leon Phillips, head of GWEO

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) will purchase new, smart sea mines, which will reinvigorate Defence’s maritime mining capability, and are deployable from submarines, ships and aircraft.

At IDEF 2023, Turkish ammunition and weapon manufacturer MKE unveiled 'UÇA', a smart naval mine that can be launched from aerial drones.

Australia is set to accelerate the procurement of sea mines as part of Project SEA 2000, a move foreshadowed in the 2020 Defence Strategic Update, according to the Australian Department of Defence.

On February 14, 2023, Turkish media outlets claimed that a drifting sea mine exploded near Agva on the Black Sea coast.

SH Defence, DA-Group and FORCIT Defence signed a MoU to develop the use of the CUBE for launching, laying and storing sea mines

A senior engineer at the RAND Corporation wrote about the dangers of floating and drifting mines and how current navies are hard-pressed to counter them.

Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the incident on Twitter, indicating that the Turkish Navy sent ...