Lithuania and Denmark Buy Finnish BLOCKER Naval Mines With Over 1,000 kg TNT-Equivalent Warheads

Lithuania and Denmark signed agreements to buy FORCIT’s Finnish BLOCKER seabed influence mine under the Finland-led Naval Mines Cooperation procurement. The weapon, designated PM16 in Finnish service, combines acoustic, magnetic, pressure and inertial sensing with programmable target-detection logic, and FORCIT rates its main charge at more than 1,000 kilograms of TNT equivalent. The procurement uses a common hardware configuration to support interchangeability while allowing participating navies to define their own detection algorithms, and neither Lithuania nor Denmark disclosed how many mines it would receive under its agreement.