The Drive: Russia could cut the submarine cables of the marine observatory in Norway off the coast of Northern Norway, capable of tracking the movements of submarines. This accusation is given in the publication of The Drive.
The publication claims that the incident “raised suspicions of deliberate sabotage, possibly carried out by the Russian government, which definitely has the means to do so.”
According to newsinenglish.no, more than 4.3 kilometers of the 66-kilometer network of specially designed marine fiber and electrical cables connecting subsea sensor nodes to onshore monitoring stations have been cut and disappeared. The cables were located on the Norwegian continental shelf and made it possible to monitor the underwater situation in the Norwegian Sea. Damage to the system paralyzed its work.
Data from the system, formally declared by the scientific, first went to the Norwegian Institute for Defense Research, where, after verification, it was sent to the Institute of Marine Research of the country.
“Russia has special-purpose submarines, which may well be equipped to cut cables or even remove them for further study, “writes The Drive.
The publication emphasizes that the Norwegian side is currently studying the circumstances of the incident.
In July 2019, the US Naval Institute announced that the AS-31 Losharik nuclear deep-water station, which had a fire earlier in the same month, is intended to be deployed in the North Atlantic, in particular, conducting operations on a conventional line connecting Greenland and the British Isles (Faroe-Icelandic border), where the American sonar anti-submarine sound surveillance system SOSUS (SOund SUrveillan ce System).