The Ship Model Forum

Russian Ships Could Cause ‘Catastrophe’ for West by Cutting Transatlantic Internet Cables
Newsweek
7 hrs ago

Russian warships in the Atlantic could become a serious threat to NATO without even firing a shot, by cutting underwater cables vital for international trade and communications, a top British defense official has said.

Severing those links could paralyse everything from trade to internet connection, according to the U.K.’s Chief of the Defence Staff, Sir Stuart Peach, who is also also an air chief marshal and chairs the NATO military committee as of September.

“There is a new risk to our prosperity and way of life, to the cables that crisscross our sea beds, disruption to which through cable-cuts or destruction would immediately—and catastrophically—fracture both international trade and the internet,” he said at London’s Royal United Services Institute on Thursday, according to The Guardian.

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Could Russia knock out undersea cables?
BBC News
2 hrs ago

The UK's top military officer has warned that Russia could strike a "catastrophic" blow to the economy by targeting communications and internet cables that run under the sea.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach, the chief of the defence staff, said the lines could potentially be cut or disrupted.

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