Space mine

Space Mine also known as Standard, Proximity, Sleeper, Seeker, or Ion Mines were near one meter in diameter high explosive, fragmentation explosive, or ion discharge explosives ment mainly for starfighters.

Types of Mines
There were many different types of space mines including proximity mines, sleeper mines, seeker mines, and ion mines.

Standard mines were deployed in a big minefield because they required contact to ignite the fuse. When a craft runned into it, a high explosive chemical charge damaged or destroyed anything nearby. These were good against all craft types.

Proximity mines were your basic mines that explode whenever an enemy craft got close enough to set of its fuse. When a craft runned into it, the blast sprayed a cloud of fragments into a ten to one hundred meter blast cloud. Proximity mines were perfect for use against starfighters.

Sleeper mines were just like standard mines, but were extremely harder to detect.

Seeker mines were mines that when a craft flies close by thay became active and home in on the target at medium speeds. They exploded on contact with a little less power than standard mines. They were also very hard to detect. These mines were good against mainly capital ships but could be devastating to starfighters too.

Ion mines were used to disable enemy craft flying nearby. They worked very similar to proximity mines. Instead of fragments though, they ignited a big ion cloud that would disable anything in the blast area. There were also other types of ion mines.