Nato has revealed that it will develop its own fleet of unmanned surface vessels (USV) to patrol the coastal waters of member states and protect undersea cables across the Baltic and Mediterranean seas.
There are countless cables running along our seabeds. These include power cables carrying electricity and communication cables carrying telecommunication signals between continents and countries. If these cables were severed it would lead to huge upheavals.
Just last month, two cables were severed in the Baltic Sea – one between Sweden and Lithuania and the other between Germany and Finland. These attacks immediately raised concerns among Nato member states that it was deliberate sabotage.
A joint statement from foreign ministers of Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and the UK called on Nato to do more as “Russia is systematically attacking European security architecture”. They added that Russia’s attacks are escalating, “creating significant security risks”.
Nato has now revealed that...