Britain is ‘woefully’ short of the capabilities needed to protect its undersea cables from a potential Russian attack, experts have warned, amid fears Moscow will deploy a ‘secret weapon’ to sabotage vital infrastructure.
It comes as Nato allies caught Russian submarines training to unleash a secret weapon designed to disable critical undersea cables without leaving any fingerprints.
The clandestine Russian operation, described by two Western officials, was carried out by Moscow‘s GUGI undersea warfare directorate, which used deep-sea submersibles to simulate the deployment of the sophisticated technology.
A joint operation involving Britain, Norway and the US tracked and confronted the Russian vessels at
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