As NATO members sound the alarm, an expert tells Newsweek Russia's current submarine activity is as dangerous as Cold War levels in terms of sheer volume.
The Russian Navy commands one of the most diverse submarine fleets in the world. Some are capable of carrying ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads, which Moscow considers key to its strategic deterrent.
Russia sees its economic future, its national security, and its ability to influence other nations as linked to its strength at sea, according to the Russia Maritime Studies Institute , which conducts research onthat potential attacks to underwater critical infrastructure around the world present a"legitimate and serious threat."
The organization has a number of assets at its disposal, including a submarine called Belgorod that is capable of launching a"A number of other submarines are capable of either placing listening devices or explosives on things like deep sea cables. If there are ways to tap into information in those cables they are capable of doing that, if they want to, they can place sensors on the ocean floor," Peterson said.
Undersea cables, especially undersea fiber optic cables, are critical pieces of fixed infrastructure that are extremely difficult to defend, he explained. "That is a fundamental part of Russian warfighting, it's this ability to impose cost on their adversary in order to undercut the political will to fight."
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