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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
We also know in the books that Soviet naval power, hell, all naval power of note, was on the bottom very early on (before the nukes I believe). There may well not have been time to lay minefields of any size in far off places.
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In fact, what we know is that surface ships get to the bottom of the sea. Little is said on the subs. What we can guess is that little survive the exchange but also that they are active at launching the nukes.
For my part, I consider mines to be a real threat in T2K but a random one. You won't find large minefields as in ww2 but NATO's capability to clear the existing ones is equally reduced to nothing.
Another thing, Soviets used to drop mines from aircrafts and Tu-95 Bear will flight much longer than B-2 Spirit. In addition, Antonovs can also be easily modified to drop mines.