Britain is investing £90 million (about $121 million) in underwater drones and artificial intelligence to track Russian submarines and protect cables in the North Atlantic.
The Ministry of Defense in the country is launching the Atlantic network system: UAVs will patrol the depths of the sea, sensors will look for submarines and suspicious activity, and data will be transmitted to ships and submarines in the Arum class. The system is also supposed to protect the UK's energy grid and nuclear deterrent.
Atlantic Network will be part of the Atlantic Fortress program, which will combine conventional ships and unmanned systems. NATO allies will be involved in it. The project should create almost 200 jobs.
In April, British, Norwegian and US forces tracked three Russian submarines near underwater cables and pipelines for more than a month. As Reuters has discovered, the Russian Federation then tried to test a secret anti-cable weapon near Svalbard.