Mines

Overview

Damage Type	Weapon Type
Explosive	Mine

Good	Not Good
Saving yourself from an attacker…sort of.	Actually hitting the ship you intended to hit.
Doing zoom and boom runs.	Causes unintentional comedy, such as getting a bounty for killing a friendly NPC many km away.
Making everyone’s point defense go “Squirrel!”	NPCs are good at avoiding mines and are much more likely to carry point defense.
Checking the damage resistance of your own shields and hull.
Carpet bombing planetary bases

Size Notes

Larger mine launchers have higher capacity, but the mine damage remains the same.

Engineering

High Capacity	Get more mines.
Lightweight	If you want mines available while you run away in your mass sensitive ship.
Rapid Fire	Drop mines faster.
Sturdy	Lol sure why not.

Experimental Effects

Double Braced	Use module reinforcements instead.
Emissive Munitions	Blocks the sensor dropoff effect of heat sinks and low heat.
Flow Control	Frees up a tiny bit of energy, but there are better ways to do that.
Ion Disruption	Causes the target’s thrusters to reboot. Instant sitting duck.
Overload Munitions	Changes half of your damage to thermal to make the mines better against shields. Not as good as it sounds.
Oversized	If you don’t care about other experimentals, a bit more damage doesn’t hurt.
Radiant Canister	Causes increased heat and sensor disruption in an area.
Reverberating Cascade	Directly damages the target’s shield generator. With enough hits, their shields drop permanently.
Shift-Lock Canister	Causes all FSDs in an area to reboot.
Stripped Down	Frees up a tiny bit of mass, but there are better ways to do that.