Chinese naval mines

I've been trying to find info from english language web but I haven't found much outside estimations up to 100.000 naval mines in PLAN inventory. Does anyone have pictures or any other info what kinda naval mines they actually have? I know Norinco(?) is exporting them so there should be atleast few pics and some specs ad's somewhere.

Didn't find much info from forums either.



For example Finnish naval mine manufacturers offer this kinda info for the public.

Is this something what's more secret than torpedoes? There are plenty info about those.

An interesting subject to be sure, unfortunately a bit under-reported I am guessing because mines unlike carriers or submarines are not "sexy", yet modern technologies could make it potentially a rather devastating asset for particular conflict scenarios.

Difficult to really find any info on PLA naval mines, anyone have more knowledge on this? I've seen some mention of "intelligent" mines but not really any details were given. Not sure if that's similar to a UUV of some sort or a loitering torpedo. Maybe these are mines that have already been laid in the seabed but will only activate in the event of war. Again no info to go on, but presumably PLA have their own version of QuickStrike?

I was thinking they could be really useful in a large scale Westpac conflict or even if a war is localized to Taiwan to guard flanks against outside intervention. In large scale Westpac war, that's a really large area to cover with some areas more exposed than others, and mines would be really helpful to cover those soft flanks especially against marauding subs. After the PLA establishes air superiority up to the First Island Chain, they could use H-6 or conventional subs offensively to launch mines from a distance to lock up Japanese harbors, and this would certainly be within current PLA capabilities. Towards the end of this decade, for longer distances like Pearl Harbor, maybe H-20 or Type 09-V submarines, or long range UCAVs can be used.